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

“The life of truth is cold.”

“It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”

“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”

“The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This element I call an ultimate end. No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.”

“For me,”

“I act as the tongue of you,”

“Pater noster”

“that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith”

“But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,”

“Let's get loose”