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

“Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams”

“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.”

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

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

“Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is health of every man.”

“This book is dedicated to those in life whom I have met and by virtue of those encounters, have helped to shape the content herein.”

“Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.”

“She walks in beauty, like the night”

“My vengeance is my guilt”

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,”

“no moon
the dark sky glad with stars
first crocus pokes winter in the ass”