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.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Even trees do not die without a groan.

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects; and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination.

I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.

Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.