...or love, or science, or animal intoxication, — which are several coarser or finer quasi-mechanical substitutes for the true nectar, which is the ravishment of the intellect by coming nearer to the fact.1 These are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency of a man, to his passage out into free space,...

...their normal powers" and "transmute life's leaden metal into gold ;" and, again, that "it helps a man to escape the custody of that body in which he is pent up, and that jail yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed." Crosby believes that the evil results...

...politics, or love, or science, or animal intoxication, which are several coarser or finer guosi-mechanical substitutes for the true nectar, which is the ravishment...Hence, a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty, as painters, poets, musicians, and actors, have been more than others wont to...

...politics, or love, or science or animal intoxication which are several coarser or finer gwasi-mechanical substitutes for the true nectar which is the ravishment...that jail-yard of individual relations in which he is inclosed. Hence a great number of such as were professionally expressors of Beauty, as painters, poets,...

...or love, or science, or animal intoxication, — which are several coarser or finer quasimechanical substitutes for the true nectar, which is the ravishment...custody of that body in which he is pent up, and of that jail yard of individual relations in which he is enclosed. Hence a great number of such as were professionally...

...in space. When he writes about 'The Poet' and his attraction to narcotics of all kinds Emerson says: 'These are auxiliaries to the centrifugal tendency...of individual relations in which he is enclosed.' Near the end of Walden Thoreau has some marvellous lines about the 'ethereal flight' of a hawk which...

...in "The Poet" several of the "^«fl«-mechanical substitutes for the true nectar" which help a man "to escape the custody of that body in which he is...of individual relations in which he is enclosed," Emerson went on to affirm: Hence a great number of such as were professionally expressors of Beauty,...

...and right" as they did in the poet's poem? Mainly Emerson Nature's Gold [The poet's] true nectar ... is the ravishment of the intellect by coming nearer to the fact. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Poet" (1844) IN Nature, at the beginning of the section on "Language,"...

...bonds of our enclosed "mortality," opening us to bottomlessness. Emerson, too, speaks mysteriously of "the true nectar, which is the ravishment of the intellect by coming nearer to the fact" ("The Poet," RWE, 319). For both writers this direct confrontation with arduously achieved facts not...

...love, or science, or animal intoxication,— which are several coarser or finer </ua.n'-mechanical substitutes for the true nectar, which is the ravishment...Hence a great number of such as were professionally expressers of Beauty, as painters, poets, musicians and actors, have been more than others wont to...