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 do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
A little integrity is better than any career.
When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.
We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Literature is eavesdropping.
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, You've got to be taught, from year to year, It's got to be drummed in your dear little ear, You've got to be carefully taught.