| Fraternal organizations - 1838 - 488 pages
...poetry was all written before time was, whenever we are so finely organized that we can peeuetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those...primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but \ve lose ever and a word or a verse, and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem."... | |
| 1846 - 492 pages
...the universe. Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate, hut is emperor in his own right. ' Poetry was all written before time was, and whenever...region where the air is music, we hear those primal warbliugs, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1891 - 900 pages
...himself. "Poetry," he says, "was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air...primal warblings and attempt to write them down." So in his view, the poet of all others was the man sensitive to the larger truths, he was the transmitter... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 286 pages
...an architect. 2 For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air...those primal warblings, and attempt to write them doAvn, but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 238 pages
...to an architect. For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so fmely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air...and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate car write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 386 pages
...whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music,1 we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write...substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.2 The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 504 pages
...to an architect. For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warhlings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, or a verse, and substitute... | |
| George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 416 pages
...him to know ; " for poetry was all written before time was; and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air...primal warblings, and attempt to write them down." The greater the veracity and faithfulness of the poet, the more he keeps out his own fancies, and speaks... | |
| George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 406 pages
...him to know; " for poetry was all written before time was; and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air...those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down.'y The greater the veracity and faithfulness of the poet, the more he keeps out his own fancies,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...organw^ ™at we can penetrate into that region Warhr "ie a'r 's raus'c" we hear those primal ™l»gs, тпore faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations. For nature... | |
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