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| a73201d | Enmerson's interest is in the workshop phase, the birthing stage of art, not the museum moment, the embalming phase. Poetry mimics Creation and is therefore sacred. More precisely, just as God may indeed be a verb (as Mary Daly insists), poetry is the act of . The process of poetry also mimics the process of nature. 'This expression or naming is not art, but a second nature, grown out of the first, as a leaf out of a tree. What we call nat.. | nature poetry writing definition-of-genius mary-daly workshop writing-tips ralph-waldo-emerson emerson transcendentalism decay creative-process genius process | Robert D. Richardson | |
| 83a4b3a | But even italics fail to do justice to this magnificent outburst, the last stand of William James for the spirit of man. What can one about the philosophical bravado, the cosmic effrontery, the sheer of this ailing philosopher with one foot in the grave talking down the second law of thermodynamics? It is a scene fit to set alongside the death of Socrates. The matchless incandescant of the man! | Robert D. Richardson Jr. | ||
| 588a1e8 | William found Rio and its approaches so overpoweringly grand that "no words of mine... can give any idea of [the] magnificence of this harbor and its approaches." | Robert D. Richardson Jr. |