Ralph Waldo Emerson

If Music Be the Food of Love... (33 person items)

"I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine."

The Merits of Poetry (28 person items)

""Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet." "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, a verse, and substitute something of "

People Quotes - Part 1 (50 person items)

"“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but"

50 Favorite Authors (50 person items)

"The Essays and Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson (10/10) "