Poets Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

8 Poets quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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If you’ve ever wondered how Thoreau saw the world of poets, this brief set gives you a direct line to his thoughts. The eight selections, though few, capture his reverence for the craft and the quiet power he found in poetic minds.

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The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of…

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I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to…

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Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants…

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There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the…

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The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

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When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed,…

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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let…

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The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

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In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

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Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

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“When he has obtained those things which are necessary to life, there is another alternative than to obtain the superfluities; and that is, to…

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Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

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