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" The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward : the eyes... "
History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar - Page 157
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 180 pages
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A Dream Too Wild: A Book of Meditations from the Writings of Ralph Waldo ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 396 pages
...the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward...forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. —THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR Can you think of a book that inspired you? ls reading pan of your spiritual...
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Sounding the Abyss: Readings Between Cavell and Derrida

Roger V. Bell - 2004 - 618 pages
...to pursue what Emerson terms genius. Against the institutions of books and college, Emerson argued: "They look backward and not forward. But genius looks...forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes, genius creates" (E, 47). Nietzsche looks forward from Emerson to recognize man as this walking, giant ear, an ear that...
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Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic "light of All ...

Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 555 pages
...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. . . . Instead of being its own seer, let it receive from another mind its truth, though it were...
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Secular Revelations: The Constitution of the United States and Classic ...

Mitchell Meltzer - 2005 - 216 pages
...soul's very enemy: The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his. (pp. 57-58) For Lincoln, the Revolution has passed, the primal time is over, and now the achievement...
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Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry

Andrew Epstein - 2006 - 376 pages
...WITH THE AVANT-GARDE The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they...They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. — Emerson, "American Scholar" It is rather remarkable that American avant-garde poets of the 19505...
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Emerson: Political Writings

Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,...be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deityis not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there...
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