 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.  The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 2by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 pages
...the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow... | |
 | M.P. Singh - 2005 - 324 pages
...by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power." — Phillips Brooks "In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." — Ralph Waldo Emerson "The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius."... | |
 | 216 pages
...stresses is Burchfield's attention to the marginal or overlooked. He quotes a passage from Emerson: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."3" These rejected thoughts are bound to remind us of "repressed thoughts" that return with... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow... | |
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