 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
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...apply precisely that word." (ISA 192) Burke observes that a recurrent symbol is that of the stars: "If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars," writes Emerson (quoted LSA 193). Burke notes his debt to the closing imagery of Dante's great, emphatically... | |
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...of functions, but scarcely yet a remote approximation to an idea of creation. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as...those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are always... | |
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