 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...writes (TVte Poet) that what makes a poem is not metres, but "a thought so passionate and alive that ... it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." 57. Cf. Emerson's lines To JW : — " Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark." Why... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | 1854 - 694 pages
...— that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — •' л thought so passiouato and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, nuil adorns nature with a new thing." How plainly Mr. Willis is thought a contemporary, not an eternal... | |
 | 1845 - 670 pages
...the songs of the nations." — " It is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." — " In our way of talking we say, ' That is yours, this is mine,' but the Poet knows well that it... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...of the verses is primary. For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is... | |
 | Literary and philosophical society of Liverpool - 1851 - 742 pages
...within. It was the same in poetry, which was not rythmic or cadenced words, but a voice of the heart—" a thought so passionate and alive, that like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it had an architecture of its own." In every one of the arts, the same law held sway : the elements used... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 516 pages
...argument, that makes a poem — that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." How plainly Mr. Willis is thought a contemporary, not an eternal man,* by the scribe of the Biglow... | |
 | 1853 - 538 pages
...argument, that makes a poem — that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the...architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing." How plainly Mr. Willis is thought a contemporary, not an eternal man,* by the scribe of the Biglow... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...metre-making argument, that makes a poem; that in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form — " leasure How plainly Mr. Willis is thought a contemporary, not an eternal man,* by the scribe of the Biglow... | |
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, —a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. 
