Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Romance

• Thou art to me a delicious torment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Art, Romance

  'Essays' (1841) 'Friendship'

• Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Romantic, Girlfriend

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.144, Penguin

• All mankind love a lover.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, Romance

  Essays "Love" (1841)

• We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Men, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.205

• Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Justice, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.245, Harvard University Press

• The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Men, Yield

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.183, Graphic Arts Books

• Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Romance, Ships, Sail

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.202, Penguin

• And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance, or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them, and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Two, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.328, Library of America

• The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to hermother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Summer, Song, Morning

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.101, Courier Corporation

• When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Children, Boys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2389, Delphi Classics

• Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Giving, Romance

• For, when men shall meet as they ought, each a benefactor, a shower of stars, clothed with thoughts, with deeds, with accomplishments, it should be the festival of nature which all things announce. Of such friendship, love in the sexes is the first symbol, as all other things are symbols of love. Those relations to the best men, which, at one time, we reckoned the romances of youth, become, in the progress of character, the most solid enjoyment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Stars, Sex

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.216

• Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Cutting, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.104, Courier Corporation

• Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Romantic, Envy, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.84, Courier Corporation

• If with love thy heart has burned;
  If thy love is unreturned;
  Hide thy grief within thy breast,
  Though it tear thee unexpressed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grief, Heart, Love Is

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

• Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Flower, Home, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.104, Courier Corporation

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