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Emerson, Ralph Waldo - The Poet - Inspiration, a lover, a poet, is the transcendency of its own nature, him it will suffer
Identifier
014700
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Ralph Waldo Emerson – The Poet
This insight, which expresses itself by what is called Imagination, is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuit of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.
The path of things is silent.
Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?
A spy they will not suffer; a lover, a poet, is the transcendency of their own nature; - him they will suffer
The source of the experience
Emerson, Ralph WaldoConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Beauty, art and musicBeing left handed
Communing with nature
Contemplation and detachment