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

“Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right and a perfect contentment.”

“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”

“Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

“This outlook, one that said that American history must be the history of nature speaking through men, not of men shaping nature, became the single most powerful force in American intellectual life in the nineteenth century and shaped some of America's greatest works of literature, such as Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass and Walden, as well as generating an American school of philosophy , to be furthered by William James and John Dewey.”

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

“A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.”

“Fireflies, to me, are nighttime butterflies,”

“This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.”

“It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.”

“Your politics are so far right,”

“Thou shalt believe in Milton, Dryden, Pope;”

“Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.”