“Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other.”
About Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson, born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 25 May 1803 and dead in Concord, Massachusetts, on 27 April 1882, became one of the defining voices of nineteenth-century American literature. He was at once a poet, essayist, lecturer, editor, religious dissenter, and public moralist, though no single title…