Ralph Waldo Emerson Words Quotations

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word...

In good writing, words become one with things.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.