 These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose ; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 123by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...it is perfect in every moment" Beiore a leaf-bud has burst, its whole lite acts ; in the fuITblown flower there is no more ; in the leafless root there is no less. Tts nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all momerits alike. But man puslp^lUiij ui luiiibiiibtfu... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...it, is this. the blade of grass or the blowing rose, ю When good is near you, when you have These roses under my window make no reference to former...acts; in the fullblown flower there is no more; in the life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the footprints of... | |
 | Daniel Gregory Mason - 1927 - 228 pages
...ourselves happier than we could have dreamed to be possible. II. SPONTANEITY II. SPONTANEITY "These roses under my window make no reference to former...are for what they are; they exist with God today." —Emerson. AN academic and over-conscientious friend of Renoir's once reproached him with being the... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia - 1980 - 406 pages
...Emerson tells us in "Self-Reliance," is "ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; . . . There is no time to them. . . . [Man] cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature... | |
 | C. W. E. Bigsby - 1985 - 500 pages
...influence. It was securely in the American grain. In 'Self-Reliance' Emerson had insisted that, These roses under my window make no reference to former...they are; they exist with God today. There is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. . . . But man postpones... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...am,' but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers;... | |
 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...bring to his experience the same degree of presence that he found wonderful in natural objects. "These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones," he wrote in "SelfReliance": they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time... | |
 | Harriet Scott Chessman - 1989 - 280 pages
...am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former...simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.14 Emerson suggests here the sheer presence, immediacy, and uniqueness of the actual "roses... | |
 | David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
...arrangement; a selecting principle gathering his like to him wherever he goes. There is no time to roses. There is simply the rose. It is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full blown flower, there is no more; in the leafless... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - 1990 - 284 pages
...project expands from the following well-known passage in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "SelfReliance": These roses under my window make no reference to former...is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before the leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless... | |
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