We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.
Henry David ThoreauAt the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
Henry David ThoreauEvery man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
Henry David ThoreauI have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say.
Henry David Thoreau