 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...he secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,but in being uninteresting. — BEAUTY + (jenius looks forward; the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead; man hopes; genius Creates. — THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 1 he schools of poets and philosophers are not more intoxicated with their... | |
 | Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - 1925 - 188 pages
..."Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. . . The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...forward : the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not hi his hindhead : man hopes : genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure... | |
 | 1926 - 508 pages
...conception of the creative writer in those glowing lines in " The American Scholar " where Emerson writes : Genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efQux of the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame." And in the essay... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1926 - 428 pages
...truth. He says: "The soul active . . . utters truth, or creates. ... In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward. Man hopes: genius creates. Whatever... | |
 | George Carpenter Clancy - 1928 - 288 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man creates not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Amos Reno Morris, Melvin Theodor Solve, Carlton Frank Wells - 1928 - 612 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the second estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man creates not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1971 - 316 pages
...they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius always looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius creates. To create, — to create, — is the proof of a divine presence. Whatever talents may be, if the man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative... | |
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The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward; the eyes of... 
