924 quotes found
“Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire wh...”
“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis. It is not yet ...”
“Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?”
“There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.”
“Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?”
“Ralph Waldo Emerson“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson”
“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows. Nature says, -- he is my creature, and maugre all his impertinent griefs, he shall be glad with me”
“Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.”
“The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.”
“A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it withou...”
“Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tenden...”
“The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himse...”
“Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.”
“No mountain is of any appreciable height to break the curve of the sphere.”
“But if a man be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent wit...”
“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.”
“You Life is a progress, and not a station.”
“The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.”
“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 writ...”
