Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes - Page 108
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.
A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
How we hate this solemn Ego that accompanies the learned, like a double, wherever he goes.
The craft of the merchant is this bringing a thing where it abounds to where it is costly.
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.
Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
