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
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.
It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.
To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.
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.
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.