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,... Works - Page 89by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
| Michael A. Peters - 2002 - 276 pages
...sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are old and fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive,...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. (Emerson 1982, 279) The thought that is carried in this conveyance, which is not a house, is salutary... | |
| Gregg David Crane - 2002 - 316 pages
...wisdom and justice," the visionary jurist realizes that all legal "symbols are fluxional; all [law] is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." Neither implicit metaphor in the terms "foundationalist" and "anti-foundationalist" captures the "vehicular"... | |
| Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - 2003 - 770 pages
...soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive,32 and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance,...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... | |
| James Longenbach - 2009 - 139 pages
...the inevitable work of language itself. "All language," said Emerson, high priest of forgetfulness, "is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries...conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead." This is true, he explained, because "every sensuous fact" is ridden not only with double or quadruple... | |
| David H. Evans - 2008 - 304 pages
...thought of Emerson, James's most important intellectual influence.26 In "The Poet," Emerson writes that "all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular...are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead."27 Faulkner does not inform us whether Ratliff is a reader of Emerson, but it is clear that... | |
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