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 foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.
The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
Love is like wildflowers; It's often found in the most unlikely places.
Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.
The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike
Not in his goals but in his transitions is man great
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire
Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire