 | 1986 - 820 pages
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 | Larry Dossey - 1988 - 76 pages
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 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...to bring to his experience the same degree of presence that he found wonderful in natural objects. "These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones," he wrote in "SelfReliance": they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time... | |
 | Harriet Scott Chessman - 1989 - 280 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...simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.14 Emerson suggests here the sheer presence, immediacy, and uniqueness of the actual "roses... | |
 | David Jacobson - 2010 - 221 pages
...arrangement; a selecting principle gathering his like to him wherever he goes. There is no time to roses. 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 flower, there is no more; in the leafless... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - 1990 - 284 pages
...literary project expands from the following well-known passage in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "SelfReliance": These roses under my window make no reference to former...is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before the leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless... | |
 | Richard Whelan - 1991 - 212 pages
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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. 
