Humor Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

“Every word was once a poem.”

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“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.”

“The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is.”

“Alec?" Magnus was staring at him. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis demons, and the square was empty but for the two of them. "Did you just- did you just save my life?”

“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”

“You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you.”

“Either get out of bed or else take your clothes off," he said. "I'm not in the mood to compromise.”

“And spare me the jokes about scoring.”

“Any fool can make a rule”