 | 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... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1994 - 214 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 rose . . . they are for what they are; they exist with God today." We can locate Emerson's proposed therapy... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David Richo - 1991 - 148 pages
...horizon; and all before us was the wide Pacific. — Herman Melville: Omoo 6. VALUES AND SELF-ESTEEM These roses under my window make no reference to former...roses or to better ones; they are for what they are ... tfiere is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.... | |
 | Hajime Nakamura - 1992 - 600 pages
...The experience is liberating." (Ibid., p. 8) 30. In this connection a comment by Emerson seems apt: "These roses under my window make no reference to...simply the 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... | |
 | Harold J. Morowitz - 1993 - 239 pages
...apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," or "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing...better ones; they are for what they are; they exist for God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of... | |
 | Ken Wilber - 1993 - 396 pages
...over living today, for he must also live tomorrow. In the words of Emerson (from "Self-reliance"): These roses under my window make no reference to former...they are; they exist with God today. There is no time for them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. . . . But man postpones... | |
 | Harold J. Morowitz - 1993 - 239 pages
...window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist for God today. There is no time to them. There is simply...rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. I would not have pursued these flowery thoughts had I not heard Stanwyn Shetler of the Smithsonian... | |
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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. 
