“Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.”
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Art
“Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.”
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Art
The Snow-Storm http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/snow_storm.htm
1840s, Poems (1847)
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.”
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”
Fuente: 1830s, Nature http://www.emersoncentral.com/nature.htm (1836), Ch. 3, Beauty
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Society and Solitude, Art
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.”
Heroism
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Good bye, proud world! I'm going home;
Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.”
Good Bye
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: Good bye, proud world! I'm going home;
Thou art not my friend; I am not thine.
“The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.”
July 1855
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
Give All to Love http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/give_all_to_love.htm, st. 1
1840s, Poems (1847)
“We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Compensation
“The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price.”
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Quotation and Originality
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Art
“Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.”
Fate
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)