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
To fill the hour──that is happiness.
The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.
It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
My hours are peaceful centuries.
Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.
Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination
The times are the masquerade of the eternities