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 line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.
Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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.