More from Henry David Thoreau

  1. If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
  2. 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 …
  3. A poem is one undivided unimpeded expression fallen ripe into literature, and it is undividedly and unimpededly received by those for whom …
  4. What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
  5. Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
  6. It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.
  7. A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.
  8. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

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