...as the one and indispensable belief necessary to moral and social life."6 Compare this with Emerson: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." Emerson expresses what he calls the ground of his hope that man is one, that we are capable of achieving...

..."geniuses," though they differed from others only in daring to follow their intuition. Emerson wrote: "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius. . . . Imitation is suicide." Children were superior to adults because they were the ultimate nonconformists;...

...returning words to language, as if making them common to us, ... the fourth sentence of 'Self-Reliance': 'To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men, — that is genius'" (QO, 1 14). This version of the romantic's genius is "the promise that the private and the social will...

...to concentrate? Do you await "the news conceming the structure of the world"? What does it tell you? To believe your own thought, to believe that what...true for you in your private heart is true for all men,—that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost...

...Transcendentalist Emerson's (1838/1993) self-reliance, "To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what it is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius" (p. 19). We have been shaped to be who we are from our accumulated past experiences, by the stream...

...Always the soul hears an admonition in such lines, let the subject be what it may. The sentiment they instil is of more value than any thought they may...genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost — and our first thought is rendered back...

...will one be potent, or self-reliant. Genius, he says, is merely the ability to listen to yourself. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." In the essay on "History," he says, "Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that...

...Elizabeth Barrett Bnnvning The future is not a gift — it is an achievement. — Harry Lander Genius To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but...

...nonverbal process in words. . . . If we return to Emerson's passage, a second idea is suggested in (1), "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius." This statement makes a connection between selfesteem and genius. It evokes the idea, in the strongest...

...rejects, in "Self-Reliance," as conforming to "the world's opinion," instead of his own imperative. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what...private heart is true for all men — that is genius" (E&L 259). "I celebrate myself," Emersonian Whitman announces, more nonchalantly but no less momentously,...