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

“This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it”

“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations.”

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

“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”

“He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.”

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

“Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”

“Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.”

“Hey you, dragging the halo-”

“The bud”

“I still wake up with things to tell you.”