A Year with Emerson: A DaybookD.R. Godine, 2003 - 231 psl. Arranged for daily inspiration, wisdom from one of America's great visionary and philosophical minds. "A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us." A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days. Known throughout the world for his cogent, epigrammatic writing, admired as the "George Washington of American Literature," his work is even more enriching in bigger doses. Daily almanac entries present the heart of Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas and philosophy. Some were written on the very day in which they appear in the book, some are speculations and musings of the season and the natural world, but all are unfailingly wise, still relevant to our modern times. Emerson's mind ranged across the universe even as he traveled the length and breadth of the United States and Europe. With Emerson as a companion and guide, we meet the ideas and personalities he championed and encountered, from Lincoln to John Muir, from Carlyle to Montaigne, and, of course, the close New England circle of Hawthorne, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and the Alcotts. With company such as this, and the scope of Emerson's vision, you're sure to encounter rich food for thought every day of the year. |
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... never prayed . That persons whom like circumstances and like feelings assimi- late , that a family , that a picked society of friends , should unite in this service , does not , I conceive , violate any pre- cept of just reason . It ...
... never surprise nature in a corner ; never find the end of a thread ; never tell where to set the first stone . The bird hastens to lay her egg : the egg hastens to be a bird . The wholeness we admire in the order of the world , is the ...
... never compass it ; Art its height could never hit ; It came never out of wit ; But a music music - born Well may Jove and Juno scorn . Thy beauty , if it lack the fire Which drives me mad with sweet desire , What boots it ? What the ...