Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2 |
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... poets , the romancers , do not in their state- liest pictures , in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better ...
... poets , the romancers , do not in their state- liest pictures , in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better ...
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... poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circum- VOL . II . 2 stance . Every chemical ...
... poet , to the philosopher , to the saint , all things are friendly and sacred , all events profitable , all days holy , all men divine . For the eye is fastened on the life , and slights the circum- VOL . II . 2 stance . Every chemical ...
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... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its ...
... poet makes twenty fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The ada- mant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it its ...
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... poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preėxist in the secreting ...
... poet's mind ; the true ship is the ship - builder . In the man , could we lay him open , we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work ; as every spine and tint in the sea - shell preėxist in the secreting ...
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... poet was no odd fel- low who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confes- sion true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligi- ble to ...
... poet was no odd fel- low who described strange and impossible situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confes- sion true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligi- ble to ...
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Page 318 - ... event, so that all the laws of nature may be read in the smallest fact. The intellect must have the like perfection in its apprehension and in its works. For this reason, an index or mercury of intellectual proficiency is the perception of identity. We talk with accomplished persons who appear to be strangers in nature. The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird are not theirs, have nothing of them : the world is only their lodging and table. But the poet, whose verses are to be spheral and complete,...
Page 83 - What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under ! But compare the health of the two men and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength.
Page 67 - I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. lie is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day.
Page 281 - THE eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it forms is the second ; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.
Page 66 - The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things; should fill the world with his voice; should scatter forth light, nature, time, souls, from the centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole.
Page 82 - It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken.
Page 55 - The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.
Page 106 - All things are double, one against another. — Tit for tat ; an eye for an eye ; a tooth for a tooth ; blood for blood ; measure for measure ; love for love. — Give, and it shall be given you. — He that watereth shall be watered himself. — "What will you have ? quoth God ; pay for it and take it.
Page 48 - The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on .him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablishcd harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
Page 203 - ... no consuetudes or habits of society, would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with them as we desire, —but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they. In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.