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
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
The highest Beauty should be plain set.
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.
I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.
A man should carry nature in his head.
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.
Your work should be in praise of what you love.
Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.
A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.
Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.