...of warm life run into the hands and the feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; , what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Provengal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low....

...that to the soul there is no great and small, no high and low. "I embrace the common, I explore it and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give...to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds." In "The Sphinx" he declares that "The fiend that man harries Is love of the Best;" and here he says...

...currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven9al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low....

...currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art,...into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds.10 Proponents of popular culture argue that true insight into any era of culture can be gained...

...so-called folk art boldly exclaims with Emerson, I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art,...feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into day and you may have the antique and future worlds.1 This artistic affirmation of everyday experiences...

...experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted. . . ." "Life is my dictionary." "Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. ..." These and many other such familiar epigrams are eloquent expressions of the practical idealism...

...and he enthusiastically sanctioned their efforts: "I ask not for the great, remote, the romantic ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low." This romantic celebration of the actualities of common life, however tentative, vicarious, or celestial,...

...if he seek a temporary peace by the diversion of his thoughts from politics or vexed questions ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low . . . the literature of the poor, the feelings of the child, the philosophy of the street, the meaning...

...currents of warm life run into the hands and the feet. I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provençal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low....

...gesture is one that strategically claims the ordinary domestic world as the fit domain of the poetic: I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight to-day, and you may have antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...