 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
 | George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. He goes on: But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present. . . . He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. ("Self-Reliance,"... | |
 | Meindert Evers - 2004 - 222 pages
...to-day. There is no time to them."35 Der Mensch macht den Fehler, dass er voller Nostalgie zurückblickt. „But man postpones or remembers; he does not live...in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past."36 Emerson will diese Melancholie vertreiben. Wenn wir der Wahrheit ins Auge blicken, spielt... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...them. 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...the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But man postpones or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 pages
...consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds., adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts;...satisfied and it satisfies nature in all moments alike. There is no time to it. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2007 - 280 pages
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