Finest Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson Download Open image “The finest poetry was first experience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Finest Firsts Inspirational Poetry
Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“A genuine poet is one who writes about experiences before they happen to him.” — T.S Eliot Copy Share Image
Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions. — Philibert Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The best words in the best order...one always go the same shock of recognition and delight when someone's words swam up to meet a… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. — Karl Shapiro 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
A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade… — Larry Atchley Jr Copy Share Image
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
Eleanor's voice was below zero. 'My finest horse to whichever faerie in this room brings me that woman's left eye.' My thoughts exactly. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity. — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
Ruth and I don't have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory?… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image