More from Henry David Thoreau

  1. A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
  2. A poem is one undivided unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature, and it is undividedly and unimpededly received by those for whom …
  3. The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettl…
  4. If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
  5. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.
  6. The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
  7. Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
  8. As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and …

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