"Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
Every word was once a poem.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which li...
"Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
"All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
"Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams
"Language is fossil poetry
"Over the inter glaciers,I see the summer glow,And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,The warm rosebuds below.
"The South-wind bringsLife, sunshine and desire,And on every mount and meadowBreathes aromatic fire;But over the dead he has no power,The lost, the los...
"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
"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 inhe...
"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator com...
"Language is fossil Poetry.
"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 ci...
"The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. He is a sovereign, and stands on the centre. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is...
"Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.