 Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense for a moment, but soon becomes old and false. For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good,...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Page 186edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 pages
...exponents of his new thought. Here is the difference betwixt the poet and the mystic, that the last nails a symbol to one sense, which was a true sense...is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead. Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and... | |
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