Quote

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
Diarist
Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Picturesque
Pictures
Art
Must

More quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image
How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm and number But, leaving rule and pale forethought, He shall aye climb For his rhyme. Pass in, pass in, the angels say
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
When it's dark enough men see stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
One of our statesmen said, The curse of this country is eloquent men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Skepticism is slow suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Quotation confesses inferiority.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image
Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson