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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... write to three or four different persons ; & in the following order . When I think I should like to write a letter & yet feel sufficiently sober to keep all my non- sense down , then I begin my letter with ' my dear Mother ' but when I ...
... Write , write . I have heard men say ( heaven help their poor wits , ) they had rather have ten words viva voce from a man than volumes of letters for getting at his opin- ion . - I had rather converse with them by the interpreter ...
... writer is a skater , and must go partly where he would and partly where the skates carry him ; or a sailor who can ... writes from a real experience , the amateur feigns one . Of course , one draws the bow with his fingers , and the ...