 | Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1988 - 300 pages
...or gross—as it seems to me." In "The Poet," Essays: Second Series, p. 29, Emerson wrote: "As the traveller who has lost his way, throws his reins on...divine animal who carries us through this world." Melville annotated: "This is an original application of the thought." afforded by polite society of... | |
 | Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 424 pages
...follow its own particular impulses, will somehow shape to the contours of the outside world: As the traveller who has lost his way, throws his reins on...hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. (460) There could hardly be a faith more destructive of conventional knowledge. In its literary applications... | |
 | Andrew Elkins - 1991 - 302 pages
...right path, in much the same way as does the surrender of Emerson's "traveller" in "The Poet": "As the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on...we do with the divine animal who carries us through the world."12 Trust that the "horse," the unconscious, prerational portion of the psyche so at odds... | |
 | Denise Levertov - 2001 - 298 pages
...new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself) by abandonment to the nature of things. ... As a traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on...divine animal who carries us through this world.' 192 'The Dragon-Fly Mother.' Readers may be interested to read The Earthwoman and the Waterwoman' (Collected... | |
 | Mary Jane Markell - 2002 - 276 pages
...intellect [one] is capable of a new energy by abandonment to the nature of things . . . As a traveler who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's...the divine animal who carries us through this world. (Emerson 1983) Finding our way back takes on a growing familiarity, for these are pathways that we... | |
 | Susan J. Rosowski - 2003 - 350 pages
...within her lethal female landscape a heroic male whose outlines we already know from far back: "As the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on...the divine animal who carries us through this world" (Selections 233), Emerson sings, simultaneously describing Archbishop Latour's salvation in the desert... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...themselves, not with the intellect alone, but with the intellect inebriated by nectar. As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's...hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible. —THE POET ls there "great public power" that you can draw upon? Have you ever wanted to trust yourself... | |
 | J. Ben-Ahron - 2004 - 200 pages
...(author of Parsifal) were striving to develop—that was Emerson's inborn capacity: As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's...we do with the divine animal who carries us through the world. For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into... | |
 | Jeffrey Wainwright - 2004 - 248 pages
...speaks adequately ... only when he speaks somewhat wildly'. He describes the process like this: As the traveller who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through the world. For... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 pages
...a face absorb his attention & lead it to the root of these matters in Universal Laws. !4 And as the traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's back, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal... | |
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As the traveller who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world. 
