 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...writes (TVte Poet) that what makes a poem is not metres, but "a thought so passionate and alive that ... it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." 57. Cf. Emerson's lines To JW : — " Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark." Why... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...and not the children of music. The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1844 - 332 pages
...and not the children of music. The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | American periodicals - 1854 - 694 pages
...— that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — •' л thought so passiouato and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, nuil adorns nature with a new thing." How plainly Mr. Willis is thought a contemporary, not an eternal... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...and not the children of music. The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | Literary and philosophical society of Liverpool - 1851 - 742 pages
...within. It was the same in poetry, which was not rythmic or cadenced words, but a voice of the heart—" a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it had an architecture of its own." In every one of the arts, the same law held sway : the elements used... | |
 | 1853 - 538 pages
...The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary" — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but a metremaking argument, that makes a poem — that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " a thought so passionate and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...The argument is secondary, the finish of the verses is primary" — in disregard of the truth that it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem; that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " a thought so passionate and alive,... | |
 | 1855 - 448 pages
...something of our own; and so mis-write the poem." Here also is another definition of true poetry ; — "a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant, or an animal, it has an arehiteeture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." Bnt in aeeordanee with the quotation... | |
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. 
