The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only
great poets can read them.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), III, Reading
great poets can read them.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), III, Reading
Related:
- Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)... - Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Walden (1854)... - The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), "Walden", 1854... - The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), I, Economy... - Only that day dawns to which we are awake. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde
- To have great poets, there must be great audiences. -- Walt Whitma
- To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), in "Walde
- I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.... - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately
o front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived....
