 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing...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... | |
 | Frederic Tuten - 2005 - 258 pages
...Clavdia's words away with it to the gorge below. "I grow to know less and less of yesterdays, Clavdia. 'These roses under my window make no reference to...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... | |
 | David James - 2011 - 250 pages
...particular was the means to get back to the authentic self. Thus, in "SelfReliance," Emerson wrote that "These roses under my window make no reference to...rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence." In ARK" 50, "Adamspire," Johnson writes never were there such roses in under the banner of summer.... | |
 | Naoko Saito - 2005 - 238 pages
...("Circles," 174). His metaphor of the rose conveys to us the depth and intensity of such a moment: Those roses under my window make no reference to former...rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. . . . but man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments... | |
 | Harold Kaplan - 336 pages
...is a stream of change but everything in that flux bears immediately the sign of its justification. These roses under my window make no reference to former...today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose.68 And from that he could go naturally to his noblest conclusion, a concrete or personalist humanism... | |
 | 156 pages
...unavoidably colored by past associations and other expectations of it. Ralph Waldo Emerson writes, "These roses under my window make no reference to...are for what they are; they exist with God today." Far too often, however, every rose we see exists for us only in relation to "former" or "better" ones.... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2007 - 280 pages
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 | Lawrence F. Rhu - 2006 - 284 pages
...conformity, he echoes Jesus on the lilies of the field and commends the roses under his window. They "make no reference to former roses or to better ones;...rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence." 23 Inasmuch as Emerson's citation merely echoes Descartes's cogito, it reflects the timidity it decries,... | |
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I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. lie 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 ; they exist with God to-day. 
