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 wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.
Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.
The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!
I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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.
Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.