 | Erik Kolbell - 2008 - 158 pages
...streets that most stories emanate and receive their wings. As Emerson wrote about his populist muse, "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet...today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." Such was the case a number of years ago, in the small Nicaraguan city of Tipitapa, as I sat at the... | |
 | John McCormick - 2011 - 261 pages
...near, the low, the common." Emerson, who on the evidence never embraced much of anybody, proclaims, "I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." Of course, he is really referring to diction, and if "The American Scholar" has enduring validity,... | |
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I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the "familiar, the low. 
