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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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Pragmatism: A Contemporary Reader

Russell B. Goodman - 1995 - 332 pages
...to date as any proposed by Derrida or Rorty. "All symbols are fluxional," he writes in "The Poet," "all language is vehicular and transitive, and is...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." Emerson thus portrays language not as a fixed mirror of the world's essence but as a tool for getting...
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Understanding the Black Mountain Poets

Edward Halsey Foster - 1995 - 232 pages
..."mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one," whereas "all language is vehicular and transitive, and is...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." 26 Black Mountain poetry is located in time; in the occasion of its composition; and, above all, in...
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Seeing in the Dark: Reflections on Dreams and Dreaming

Bert O. States - 1997 - 284 pages
...betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails the symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all...as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as barns and houses are, for homestead" (1989, 367). A dyed-in-the-wool symbol-hunter might interpret...
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E-Prime III!: A Third Anthology

Delphus David Bourland, Paul Dennithorne Johnston - 1997 - 598 pages
...reification: he believed that we must regard language as a map, and not reify it into the territory: "All symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." In this context Emerson also viewed all thought as partial and incomplete, and believed that the thoughtful...
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Geschichte und Vorgeschichte der modernen Subjektivität, Volume 1

Reto Luzius Fetz, Roland Hagenbüchle, Peter Schulz - 1998 - 1414 pages
...Rede sein, folglich wird die Architekturmetaphorik durch Bilder der Fortbewegung ersetzt: „[...] all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead" (LoA, S. 463). In einer seiner eindrucksvollsten Reflexionen über das Verhältnis von Subjekt und...
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Reason to Believe: Romanticism, Pragmatism, and the Teaching of Writing

Hephzibah Roskelly, Kate Ronald - 1998 - 212 pages
...Emerson static and outdated relative to the tasks he chose for himself. His language is tentative — "All language is vehicular and transitive, and is...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead" (1969b, 382) — and his emphasis is on possibility, use, tactic, rather than on a quest for certainty...
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Moments of Moment: Aspects of the Literary Epiphany

Wim Tigges - 1999 - 500 pages
...and the mystic, he argues, is "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" (ibid.). Emerson proposes an aesthetic that values the symbolism of language but retains a sense of...
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Back from the Far Field: American Nature Poetry in the Late Twentieth Century

Bernard W. Quetchenbach - 2000 - 212 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...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. (136) Likewise for Bly, writing is an exploratory process. Bly's scientific borrowings, such as the...
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The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo

Tony Tanner - 2000 - 276 pages
...spends a good deal of its time 'on the road'. But it has more far-reaching implications for Emerson: 'all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead' ('The Poet'). All Emerson's negative terms are to do with 'fixity' and arrest: all evil, he says, has...
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La traduzione

Susan Petrilli - 2000 - 272 pages
...this metaphor qua metaphor exhibits the innermost nature of all symbols. As Ralph Waldo Emerson notes, "all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead" (1844 [1982]: 279). Symbols are that by which we are borne along; and to be carried along by symbols...
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