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" Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are fluxional ; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good,... "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 376 pages
...betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol ' to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all...accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. The morningredness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and conies to stand to...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 386 pages
...nails a symbol ' to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. I For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular...accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.N The morningredness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all...accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behman, and comes to stand to...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 pages
...betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all...accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. The morning-redness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behman, and comes to stand to...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 pages
...betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all...horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses arc, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an...
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Maurice Maeterlinck: A Study

Montrose Jonas Moses - 1911 - 364 pages
...the poet hold symbols lightly. VA11 symbols are fluxional," — thus speaks the Sage of Concord — "all language is vehicular and transitive, and is...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." Maeterlinck was not always to dwell in the symbols of his youth, any more than he was destined to remain...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all...homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an acccidental and individual symbol for a universal one. The morning-redness happens to be the favorite...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For ah1 symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and...homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an acccidental and individual symbol for a universal one. The morning-redness happens to be the favorite...
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Poetry Review, Volume 16

Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1925 - 490 pages
...between the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all...happens to be the favourite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to him for truth and faith ; and he believes should stand for the same realities...
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Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce

Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all...accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. The morningredness happens to be the favorite meteor to the eyes of Jacob Behmen, and comes to stand to...
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