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
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
What you do speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
Wait, and thy soul shall speak.
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
Every man is eloquent once in his life.
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
Eyes...They speak all languages.
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
The people are to be taken in very small doses.
Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.