...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

...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...

...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,...