 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.  Essays, First Series - Page 61by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | P. Adams Sitney - 1990 - 284 pages
...time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before the leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown...nature is satisfied and it satisfies nature in all its moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted... | |
 | David Jacobson - 1993 - 224 pages
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 | H. L. Haywood - 1995 - 380 pages
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 | John J. Stuhr - 2000 - 724 pages
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 | Claudia Franken - 2000 - 404 pages
...selfreliance, which he had set against the deplorable habit that "man postpones or remembers" and that "he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments" the unrecapturable past. In "Circles," the transcendentalist had claimed that the one thing which we seek... | |
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