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
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays
Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing and worshipping; out of traveling and voting and watching and caring; out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.
Give all to love; Obey thy heart....
Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.
A mind might ponder its thought for an epoch, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Thou art to me a delicious torment.
A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds....
We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.