...other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness,...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...

...joy, all but in vain." — Geoffrey SBt-# ,&. "Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new." ' ..' • "Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary." - Ralli Waldo Emerson . Iri - , ." -T. s 'Coffee should be black as Hell. strong as death, and sweet...

...Emerson, in another age, who suggested that "character is higher than intellect," and who observed that "a great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think." 5 In his long lyric poem Paterson, William Carlos Williams constantly distinguishes between the intellect...

...Emerson, in another age, who suggested that "character is higher than intellect," and who observed that "a great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think."5 In his long lyric poem Paterson, William Carlos Williams constantly distinguishes between...

...other. When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...

...superior to art, for when the artist "has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints... and books are a weariness, he has always the resource to live" (15). Life and art, the world and the word, strive ceaselessly for preeminence in Buckler's works....

...60) To be sure, in the same essay Emerson goes the other way: Character is higher than intellect ... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on the elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...

...as "favoring or biassed toward" something or someone. Here is Emerson weaving some of this together: Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. ... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think. Does he lack organ or medium to...

...Transcendentalism stand in the service of social reform. To Emerson, the scholar ought to go where the heart leads: "Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. ... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think." It was Emerson's refusal to be...

...the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness,—he has always the resource to live. Character is higher...think. Does he lack organ or medium to impart his truths? He can still fall back on this elemental force of living them. This is a total act. Thinking...