 | Harold Bloom - 2004 - 312 pages
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 | Michael Dirda - 2005 - 566 pages
...getting ready to live, but never living. ... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. ... In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Even Emerson's poems proffer a treasury of the familiar: "Things are in the saddle, / And ride mankind."... | |
 | Russell B. Goodman - 2005 - 398 pages
...men, requiring human intelligence, are part of this everyday. Of some of these works Emerson writes: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."5 Do not be put off by Emerson's liberal use of "genius." For him genius is, as with Plato,... | |
 | Mary Jane Ryan - 2004 - 226 pages
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 | D.V. Rangarajan - 2004 - 172 pages
...best you have and the best will come back to you. Genius 1 . ln every work of genius, we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninetynine percent perspiration - Thomas... | |
 | Rosicrucian - 2004 - 488 pages
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 | John Kiley - 2004 - 0 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice...abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored flexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will... | |
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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. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we... 
