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Blogs about: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let Go Whatever is Holding You Back

kswpgoodfriends wrote 17 hours ago: Consider this passage more figuratively – as if God were asking you if you’d like to be … more →

Tags: Your Good Friends, Danny Thomas, let go, let God, William Shakespeare

Compounded addiction: Techno+Luxury in Berlin

stripedcat wrote 1 day ago: I’m back after having spent 2 days in Berlin for…work. Wow, that was exciting! Kein leis … more →

Tags: Berlin, Zeitgeist, Adam Thorpe, Alexander Reichert, Burberry, Chanel, Christopher Bailey, dazed and confused, Grill Royal

Weeding Project!

Tom Rink wrote 3 days ago: “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” — Ralph Wald … more →

Tags: quotation, Books, Library, weeding

Sometimes The Truth Hurts

michellekswp wrote 3 days ago: Sometimes, the truth hurts. Even the twelve men closest to Jesus had a hard time hearing it. If trut … more →

Tags: Your Good Friends, John 6:60, John Mason, Mark Twain

The Conduct of Life

arnulfo wrote 6 days ago: Ralph Waldo Emerson We ascribe beauty to that which is simple, which has no superfluous parts; which … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

Look this way, please5 comments

John Zimmer wrote 6 days ago: Perhaps you have noticed that the tag line for this blog is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson: … more →

Tags: Powerpoint, Albert Einstein, einstein, Emerson, eyes, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Pictures and words

Metaphysician, Quit Healin' Thyself

anagramsci wrote 1 week ago: King Vidor’s Truth and Illusion (1964–no IMDB entry!!!) treats the viewer to the remarka … more →

Tags: film, King Vidor series, Berkeley, F. O. Matthiessen, King Vidor, Mary Baker Eddy, metaphysics, subjectivity, Transcendentalism

Always...

Sheila wrote 1 week ago: have something beautiful insight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass. The beauty of th … more →

Tags: musings, Ideas!, Life, Love, Beauty, easy, Flowers, Wildflowers, Simple Pleasures

Wednesday Wordplay: “Crow in the company of cocks” – Malayan Proverb

Theater Blog wrote 1 week ago: Inspirational Quotes   Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood … more →

Tags: Wednesday Wordplay, Against Interpretation, arthur ashe, Arthur Schopenhauer, Charles Dickens, Daniel H. Burnham, Hoi Polloi, J. Arthur Thomson, Malayan Proverb

The Definition of Success

Emily wrote 1 week ago: This quote pretty much sums up the conclusion I have come to about life at the moment.  It is widely … more →

Tags: Inspiration, philosophising, Quotes, Life, Meaning of Life, Success!

'K, let's get Vidorganized4 comments

anagramsci wrote 1 week ago: Keep those curtains wide open. There’ll be plenty to see (and discuss) around here for the nex … more →

Tags: film, King Vidor series, King Vidor, Melodrama, Transcendentalism

Starry, Starry Night

tuesdaymidnight wrote 1 week ago: “When it is darkest, men see the stars.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “We are all in the … more →

Tags: Creativity, Alone, Solitude, Stars, loneliness, Orion, Oscar Wilde, Bill watterson

DAVID LEHMAN TO WILLIAM LOGAN: WAAAAAHH!1 comment

thomasbrady wrote 1 week ago: David Lehman uses half his introduction to Best American Poetry 2009 to attack William Logan. Now we … more →

Tags: Thomas Brady, Ezra Pound, Harold Bloom, Scarriet, Edgar Allan Poe, T. S. Eliot, modern poetry, Yvor Winters, Wallace Stevens

Parker's Kaleidoscope13 comments

Ben Friedlander wrote 1 week ago: Theodore Parker at Age 39 In 1859, no longer able to speak from a pulpit (he had TB), Theodore Parke … more →

Tags: book history, Emerson, forgotten books, History, Quotations, whitman, An American Primer, heroism, Parker

“There is no question that the power to throw your sitter into a receptive mood by a pass or two which shall give you his virgin attention is necessary to any artist."1 comment

Mark wrote 1 week ago: John Jay Chapman (from the photograph reprinted in "John Jay Chapman & His Letters," e … more →

Tags: america, American Civil War, Emerson, john jay chapman, Literary criticism, Poetics, Politics, prose style

from harold bloom's anxiety of influence: clinamen, or poetic misprision & milton's paradise lost

peter wrote 2 weeks ago: Clinamen, which is poetic misreading or misprision proper; I take the word from Lucretius, where it … more →

Tags: 1, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Harold Bloom, John Milton, Literary criticism, Northrop Frye, Paradise Lost, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Anxiety of Influence

Sad To The Brink of Fear4 comments

anagramsci wrote 2 weeks ago: Oil up your rubber plant leaves, we’re in for a vertiginous afternoon… Inspired by David … more →

Tags: film, existentialism, romanticism, Vertigo, Nostalgia, Intersubjectivity, Kim Novak, barbara bel geddes, James Stewart

TFT - Ralph Waldo Emerson

isisaurusrex wrote 2 weeks ago: People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. Ralp … more →

Tags: Quotes

bright star

hanajoey wrote 2 weeks ago: Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And … more →

Tags: Bright Star, John Keats


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