Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Creation

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

• The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Moon, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Harvard University Press

• Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Beauty, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.102, Harvard University Press

• All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Taste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation

• 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

• The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.... This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Passion, Men

• Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mother, Spiritual, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.238, Penguin

• Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Creation, Nature Beauty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.25, Bantam Classics

• A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, Creation, Magnificent

• Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Destiny, Transition, Metamorphosis

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.76, Harvard University Press

• Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Knowledge, Science

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press

• Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Men, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.2

• A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Issues, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.47, Harvard University Press

• The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Letting Go, Yankees, Teeth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4019, Delphi Classics

• When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Science, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.165

• Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rags, Creation, Ends

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

• The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Nature, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

• A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Men, Egypt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

• Ever fresh the broad creation,
  A divine improvisation,
  From the heart of God proceeds,
  A single will, a million deeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Heart, Deeds

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.94, Delphi Classics

• Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, White, Rags

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

• In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Creativity, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.157

• Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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