No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
Henry David ThoreauA traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
Henry David ThoreauTo him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Henry David Thoreau