Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.
Henry David ThoreauExpect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.
Henry David ThoreauYet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.
Henry David Thoreau