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

“Oblivion here thy wisdom is,”

“as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.”

“The South-wind brings”

“There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”

“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”

“And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,”

“We cannot always cry at the right time”

“What if, instead of carrying”

“I dreamed I spoke in another's language,”

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we have lost contact with essential aspects of our own emotional and spiritual lives.”

“When love beckons to you, follow him,”