"The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.












More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
"There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which li...
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
"Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
"All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
"Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams
"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates o...
"Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below.
"Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same
"Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the languag...
"She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.
"The South-wind bringsLife, sunshine and desire,And on every mount and meadowBreathes aromatic fire;But over the dead he has no power,The lost, the los...