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Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote several books of essays, commonly associated with transcendentalism and romanticism. "Essays" most commonly refers to his first two series of essays: Essays: First Series Essays: Second Series Some of the most notable essays of these two collections are Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience, and Politics. Emerson later wrote several more books of essays including Representative Men, English Traits, The Conduct of Life and Society and Solitude. Emerson's first published essay, Nature, was published in 1836, before the first and second series.

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Notable quotes

“When you look for the motivations you always go to the basic instincts, to the basic emotions, the basic things that have moved humankind always. That's what all writers write about, ultimately. What did Shakespeare write about? Jealousy, love, sex, power, greed, the same stuff that soap operas and the Bible are made of. It's always the same.”
— 1994 interview included in Conversations with Isabel Allende (1999)
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”
— Cyril Connolly, The New Statesman (February 25, 1933).
“The present writer ... writes because for him it is a luxury that becomes all the more enjoyable and conspicuous the fewer who buy and read what he writes.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843), S. Walsh, trans. (2006), p. 5
“Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.”
— Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart (1989).
“Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.”
— Friedrich Schlegel, “On Philosophy: To Dorothea,” in Theory as Practice (1997), p. 420.
“I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary, 1937-07-11

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“When you look for the motivations you always go to the basic instincts, to the basic emotions, the basic things that have moved humankind always. That's what all writers write about, ultimately. What did Shakespeare write about? Jealousy, love, sex, power, greed, the same stuff that soap operas and the Bible are made of. It's always the same.”
— 1994 interview included in Conversations with Isabel Allende (1999)
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.”
— Cyril Connolly, The New Statesman (February 25, 1933).
“The present writer ... writes because for him it is a luxury that becomes all the more enjoyable and conspicuous the fewer who buy and read what he writes.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843), S. Walsh, trans. (2006), p. 5
“Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.”
— Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart (1989).
“Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.”
— Friedrich Schlegel, “On Philosophy: To Dorothea,” in Theory as Practice (1997), p. 420.
“I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.”
— Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary, 1937-07-11

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Essays: work by Michel de Montaigne · 1597 collection of essays by Francis Bacon

Overview

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote several books of essays, commonly associated with transcendentalism and romanticism. "Essays" most commonly refers to his first two series of essays: Essays: First Series Essays: Second Series Some of the most notable essays of these two collections are Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul, Circles, The Poet, Experience, and Politics. Emerson later wrote several more books of essays including Representative Men, English Traits, The Conduct of Life and Society and Solitude. Emerson's first published essay, Nature, was published in 1836, before the first and second series.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote several books of essays, commonly associated with transcendentalism and romanticism. "Essays" most commonly refers to his first two series of essays:

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