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

“So nigh is grandeur to our dust,”

“There are all degrees of proficiency in the use men make of this instructive world where we are boarded and schooled and apprenticed. It is sufficient to our present purpose to indicate three degrees of progress.”

“Imitation is suicide.”

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

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

“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.”

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,”

“We suffer each other to have each other a while.”

“I have drunken deep of joy,”

“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted”

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

“The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.”