Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. Essays: First Series - Página 61por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 páginas
...present, to seize the day. "Life only avails, not the having lived," he says in "Self-Reliance." "Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf."16 Nature for Emerson was a theory of the nature of things - how things are; it was a guide to... | |
| Katherine Clay Bassard - 1999 - 194 páginas
...within literary texts. ITINERANT TEXTS Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the movement of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance") In his "Textual Note" to Sisters of the Spirit, the anthology... | |
| Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 páginas
...all, the purpose of solitude, reflection, and integrity: Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...This one fact the world hates, that the soul becomes; . . . Why then do we prate of self-reliance? Inasmuch as the soul is present, there will be power not... | |
| Edward V. Tuttle - 2000 - 214 páginas
...yet again. Emerson wrote, "Life only avails, not the having lived, " and in the same essay, "Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state. " If your life has become one of too much repose and not enough power, if you think you are too old... | |
| Frank Sewell - 2001 - 250 páginas
...twig riding the back of the stream? Emerson opted for endless, energizing, zigzagging flux: 'power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a 5 OTuama, 'Three Lyrics I Like' (1990), Repossessions, 267-73 (p. 2<58). 6 Kristeva, for example, concluded... | |
| Tony Tanner - 2000 - 276 páginas
...transition, the energizing spirit' ('Circles').12 Mason and Dixon are at their work exactly when America was 'in the moment of transition from a past to a new state', and living 'ever in a Ubiquity of Flow, before a ceaseless Spectacle of Transition'; they are, willy-nilly,... | |
| Robert Gooding-Williams - 2001 - 444 páginas
...inexhaustible, and can be always new. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Conversations with Eckermann Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint... | |
| Steven Meyer - 2001 - 486 páginas
...sentences earlier in what are among his most famous lines, "life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the...state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting of an aim" (p. 271). To name the self is to kill it off, deactivate it, put it to rest; and one might... | |
| Phil Oliver - 2001 - 296 páginas
...applauds "the fact . . . that the soul becomes," and in a very Jamesian spirit he observes that "power resides in the moment of transition from a past to...state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting of an aim."14 James's "transcendence" is an experience that heightens a person's awareness and feelings... | |
| Julia Hill - 2010 - 210 páginas
...INCREASE THEIR LIFE EXPECTANCY BY TWO YEARS. D v MAKING THE DIFFERENCE IN YOUR DAILY LIFE w E N Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON A s Whenever you save energy, you also reduce the demand for coal, oil, natural... | |
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