If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are... Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 470by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
| Patricia Merivale, Susan Sweeney - 1999 - 324 pages
..."Brahma," which Borges cites in his 1947 essay on Whitman ("Note" 69): If the red slayer think he slays. Or if the slain think he is slain. They know not well...me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. One question, however, still remains... | |
| Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari - 1999 - 228 pages
...Brahm Prakash's advice could be heard in Emerson's poem i on Brahma: If the red slayer think he slays, Or, if the slain think he is slain, They know not...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. 97 TO live only for some unknown future is superficial. It is like climbing a mountain to reach the... | |
| Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...may loosely be identified as the soul or the oversoul. It begins: If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well...the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Once more, then, readers receive the voice of a mysterious entity in enigmatic, oracular quatrains.... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1999 - 752 pages
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| Archibald Edward Gough - 2000 - 298 pages
...HA UPANISHAD. " If the red »layer think he slays, Or the slain think he is slain, They little know the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again....me is near, Shadow and sunlight are the same ; The vanished gods to me appear, And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out, Me... | |
| Carmela Ciuraru - 2001 - 276 pages
...conjunction of death with a cool mind, and I memorized lines like "If the red slayer think he slays, / Or if the slain think he is slain / They know not...the subtle ways / I keep, and pass, and turn again." (Perhaps I was born always to yearn for detachment, and so always to fail to achieve it.) But I never... | |
| Carmela Ciuraru - 2000 - 280 pages
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| Cassie Edwards - 2000 - 414 pages
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| David Shenk - 2001 - 314 pages
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