Quotes by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Knowledge exists to be imparted. >>

We are prisoners of ideas. >>

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affa >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it >>

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he >>

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly san >>

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo