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Language is fossil Poetry.

Language is fossil Poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry, Fossils, Language
'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'The Poet'

Every word was once a poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.251, Everyman's Library

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry, Mind, Sound
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.49, Harvard University Press

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry, Inspire
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1871). “Society and Solitude and Other Essays”, p.171

Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational, Men, Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.152, The Floating Press

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 our own, and thus miswrite the poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing, Air, Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.187, Penguin

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Princess, Poetry

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wind, Wings, Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Poetry, Silence
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2415, Delphi Classics

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry, Shepherds, Lambs
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love, Poetry, Tests
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.227, Harvard University Press

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Play, Poetry, Body
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.193, Harvard University Press

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.294, Рипол Классик

The true poem is the poet's mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Poetry, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.244, Library of America

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry, Argument
1844 Essays: Second Series,'The Poet'.

The finest poetry was first experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry, Firsts, Finest
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1628, Delphi Classics

For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Accomplishment, Poetry, Treasure
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2007). “Poems”, p.44, Cosimo, Inc.

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science, Poetry, May
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.480, Library of America

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fire, Poetry, Unattainable
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.83

The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Poetry, Politics
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.144, The Floating Press

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Air, Poetry
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.240, The Floating Press

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Exercise, Poetry, Humanity
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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