Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

About Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Ralph 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.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

New York is a sucked orange.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be an opener of doors

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent we have discovered afterward that much was accomplished and much was begun in us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is a happy talent to know how to play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every word was once a poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The foremost watchman on the peak announces his news. It is the truest word ever spoken, and the phrase will be th fittest, most musical, and the unerring voice of the world for that time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author Bio

  • NameRalph Waldo Emerson
  • DescriptionAmerican philosopher, essayist, and poet
  • BornMay 25, 1803
  • DiedApril 27, 1882
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Poet; Writer; Essayist