Quote #96

A poem is one undivided unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature, and it is undividedly and unimpededly received by those for whom it was matured.

More from Henry David Thoreau

  1. Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
  2. If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
  3. A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
  4. The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
  5. 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…
  6. 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 …
  7. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.
  8. What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?

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