“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form,… — 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
I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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