There was never a poet who had not the heart in the right place.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There are two classes of poets – the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
The test of the poet is the power to take the passing day, with its news, its cares, its fears, as he shares them, and hold it up to a divine reason, till he sees it to have a purpose and beauty. Then the dry twig blossoms in his hand.
If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
The pleasure of life is according to the man who lives it, and not according to the work or the place.
‘T is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine stump.
A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution. It persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar […]
That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.
