...humility much more explicitly Platonic, and the claim he made was far more grandiloquent than in 1835: It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly...man, there is a great public power on which he can drawn, by unlocking at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the etheral tides to roll and circulate...

...intriguing facet to our ongoing quest to understand the origins of awakening. Third Zen-Brain Mondo It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly...on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things. Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet." In Essays: Second Series How can long years of meditative training...

...abandonment. As he comments in "The Poet," "Beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect," a man "is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled...on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things" (EL 459). The figure of abandonment more pointedly marks the shift of emphasis away from an agent of...

...Waldo Emerson, The Poet: '. . . beyond the energy of [the] possessed and conscious intellect [one] is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled...on itself) by abandonment to the nature of things. ... As a traveller who has lost his way throws his reins on his horse's neck and trusts to the instinct...

...Emerson. "It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns," Emerson says in "The Poet," that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy ... by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man,...

...intellectual energy — as when "The Poet" exclaims that "every intellectual man quickly learns" the secret that "beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on 74 75 which he can draw" by opening himself up to the currents of inspiration ( W 3 : ij-i6). If mind...

...In "The Poet" he understands the proper use of that link, which all of us possess, as inspiration: It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly...on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things. [...] by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate...

...expressed more strongly, as one would expect, in The Poet than in any other of Emerson's writings. 'lt is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns,...on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things. ..by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate...

...unknown persons we might soon be. In "The Poet," the lecture that Whitman heard in 1842., Emerson said, "every intellectual man quickly learns that, beyond...conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy ... by abandonment to the nature of things." This instinct of metamorphosis, Emerson continued, was...

...consciousness." Emerson uses these thrilling words in describing this universal power from the cosmic: "It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that beyond the energy of his conscious and possessed intellect he is capable of a new energy by abandonment to the nature of things;...