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
We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.
The lover of letters loves power too.
The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.
Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.
We expect a great man to be a good reader.
Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.
The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
There is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had.
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Some of your hurts you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived, / But what torments of grief you endured / From evils which never arrived!
The artist must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.