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
Women see through Claude Lorraines.
Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.
Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.
A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
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