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
Today is a king in disguise.
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
Let us leave hurry to slaves.
The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures.
Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.
Imitation cannot go above its model.
That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?