Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”

“All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.”

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”

“Y se expresaron con sus propias palabras, no con las palabras de los demás hombres”

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

“Love, and you shall be loved.”

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”

“Language is fossil Poetry.”

“The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. Tis as easy as breath. Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is.”

“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.”

“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.”

“To fill the hour──that is happiness.”