Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 May 1803
CountryUnited States of America
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.
The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.
In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.
The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.
The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.