Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The stars have us to bed: Night draws the curtain; which the sun withdraws. Music” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Thus the pleasure that a noble temple gives us is only in part owing to the temple. It is exalted by the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
