...the seeming boundlessness of antebellum life, one could only become a citizen of boundless futurity. "Bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day," Ralph Waldo Emerson enjoined in his "SelfReliance." 25 Self-culture encouraged reading in a manner...

...except as they influence the interests of the day."42 Three years later, Emerson recommended bringing "the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Trust your emotion." Williams, among other poets, made Emerson's present moment the focus of his aesthetic....

...reticent to the point of silence on the topic of myth. Ill Struggles for Multiple Vision (i872-i877) It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your...thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Emerson, "Self-Reliance" The Birth of Tragedy came into the world at the beginning of January 1872...

...But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? . . . A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers...

...erstwhile opinions. A demand for creation, for the new, is asserted over and against any repetition: Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then?...thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. . .. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words...

...subjectivity, of celebrated delights, and of life endlessly reclaimed. I Taking Subjectivity Seriously Bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. Emerson, Se/f-Re/ionce Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall...

...today's market, is the sole aim of America's moral monsters. That is why Emerson trumpets the need to "bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present and live ever in a new day ... a true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things." That is the spirit...

...sure? Try this: Why do we go on dragging around this corpse of memory? Emerson And what about this: It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone, but to bring the past to judgement into the thousand-eyed present and live ever in the...

...disappoint them. But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand, eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality...

...But why should you keep your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public placc? Suppose you should contradict yourself; what then? It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to...