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
Each moment of the year has its own beauty.
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
Men are what their mothers made them.
Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.
Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.
People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Adult males are what their moms designed them.
Art is evidence of our most creative moment.
Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.
A moment is a concentrated eternity.
Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.