"Poetry being ... when we look from the…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and…
— Karen Armstrong
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
— Antonin Artaud
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products…
— Hans Bender
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would…
— Michael Bloomberg
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