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

“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”

“Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.”

“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.”

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

“Tell me not in mournful numbers,”

“And here face down beneath the sun”

“I said to you,”

“THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood—”

“A poem is a meteor.”

“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”