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

“A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”

“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.”

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

“Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.”

“from what we cannot hold the stars are made”

“أعرفُ أنني عندما أقع في الحب”

“A door jumps”

“Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;”

“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.”

“Nature is mother that gives happiness to humanity,”