...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 Behmen, and comes to stand to...

...Abgrund — is accessible only through language, and language, like philosophy of "fluxions & mobility," "is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead" (W, llI:34). Convenyance, then, is a virtue in both philosophy and language — these two are one for...

...discovers a symbolic relation and then fixes its significance for all time, whereas the poet realizes that "all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." 60 The poet is, one must remember, simply the complete and self-recovered person; and so his is only...

...insight that these descriptions apply to language itself. Its character is "to flow and not to freeze." All language is vehicular and transitive, and is good,...are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.87 Furthermore, Emerson's alternative to modern philosophy was neither to replace it with...

...imperrnanence he sees even in those instruments with which we order change. Furthermore, he believes that "all language is vehicular and transitive, and is...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." He thus treats language as an instrument needed for some result, not as mirroring some preexisting...

...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...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. (463) So much for the hypothesis of Emerson as radical epistemologist. I have selected ideas and quotations...

...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...are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.17 Language always has a distinctly transformative dimension: it not only describes and thereby...

...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...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead" (RWE, 322). Not only do these poets argue for a temporal rather than an eternal formulation of the...

...means words in the "vehicular and transitive" sense, having written in the previous paragraph that "all language is vehicular and transitive, and is...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." In twenty dense but always exciting pages Burke affirms the same idea about "things" and "words" and...

...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 Behmen,56 and comes to stand...