Writing Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that creative reading brightens a page just as creative writing lights a mind, and that writers need a priest‑like exemption from regular work to stay vibrant. He believes the power of a sentence lies in its ability to launch into the infinite, and that what a writer selects reveals as much as what they create.
![“How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/75d/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_crowds_how-can-he-today-s-writer-be-honored-whe_1464814.png)
![“I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he]…” quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7ff/ralph-waldo-emerson-6_boys_i-like-my-boy-with-his-endless-sweet-sol_2801205.png)
