Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Writing
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I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.
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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.