Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes - page 27
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, known as a leader of the Transcendentalist movement. His writings explored individuality, nature, and the human spirit. He inspired generations to think independently and pursue deeper truths. Here are 1647 of his quotes:
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations. For nature is as truly beautiful as it is good, or as it is reasonable, and must as much appear, as it must be done, or be known. Words and deeds are quite indifferent modes of the divine energy. Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Occupation: American Philosopher
Born: May 25, 1803
Died: April 27, 1882
Quotes count: 1647
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