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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 8:05 pm
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Anyone read short essays/poems by Emerson or Thoreau?
If you don't know what a Transcendentalist is... http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Transcendentalist http://www.transcendentalists.com/what.htm
Emerson was brilliant. For someone to write the way he did, and shovel out visions like his on a whim is hands down genius.
Here's one of Emerson's most famous quotes, and it almost sums up one of the largest points to Transcendentalism.:
"Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball-I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me-I am part or particle of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances-master or servant, is then a trifle, and a disturbance. I am a lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I have something more connate and dear than in the streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature."
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:55 am
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Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:06 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 6:49 am
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