Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes on Love (37 Quotes)

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Those are a success who have lived well, laughed often, and loved much who have gained the respect of intelligent people and the love of children, who have filled their niche and accomplished their task, who leave the world better than they found it, whether by a perfect poem or a rescued soul who never lacked appreciation of the earth's beauty or failed to express it who looked for the best in others and gave the best they had.

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at least a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

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

Love of beauty is taste.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates not only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.

Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

He in whom the love of truth predominates ... submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion but he is a candidate for truth ... and respects the highest law of his being.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Fair the soul's recess and shrine,
Magic-built, to last a season,
Masterpiece of love benign!

The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius for it commonly operates revolutions in our way of life, terminates an epoch of infancy or of youth . . .

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit friendship in possession.

There are two classes of poets the poets by education and practice, these we respect and poets by nature, these we love.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to Beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense.

A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

Love is the essence of God.

To-morrow, when the masks shall fall
That dizen nature's carnival,
The pure shall see, by their own will,
Which overflowing love shall fill,-
'Tis not within the force of Fate
The fate-conjoined to separate.

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

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

For me, commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself But when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, he is godlike.

Their cords of love so public are,
They intertwine the farthest star.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished. They are punished by fear. Whilst I stand in simple relations to my fellow-man, I have no displeasure in meeting him. We meet as water meets water, or as two currents of air mix, with perfect diffusion and interpenetration of nature. But as soon as there is any departure from simplicity, and attempt at halfness, or good for me that is not good for him, my neighbour feels the wrong he shrinks from me as far as I have shrunk from him his eyes no longer seek mine there is war between us there is hate in him and fear in me.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love

Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses out of sickness and pain out of wooing and worshipping out of traveling and voting and watching and caring out of disgrace and contempt, comes our tuition in the serene and beautiful laws.

If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, And not down aspires and not despairs.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

All mankind love a lover.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Give me an amulet
That keeps intelligence with you,
Red when you love, and rosier red,
And when you love not, pale and blue.

Love and you shall be loved.