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
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.
Coal is a portable climate.
The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.
The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.
Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful
Things have their laws as well as men; things refuse to be trifled with.
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.