Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep your friendships in repair.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power which resides in man is new in nature and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he until he has tried.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Over the inter glaciers, I see the summer glow, And, through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson