

“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”
Divinity College Address · 1838
Traced to Divinity College Address (1838).
More from Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society and Solitude · 1870
verified“All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Conduct of Life · 1860
verified“You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Conduct of Life · 1860
verified“Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature · 1836
verified“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fortune of the Republic · 1878
verified“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals · 1822
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“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
Virginia Woolf
Between the Acts · 1941
verified“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.”
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own · 1929
verified“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own · 1929
verified“When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.”
Maya Angelou
Paris Review Interview · 1990
verified“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
Maya Angelou
Conversations with Maya Angelou · 1989
verified“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court · 1889
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