Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? Henry David Thoreau More Quotes by Henry David Thoreau More Quotes From Henry David Thoreau We bless and curse ourselves. Henry David Thoreau bless consciousness knowledge The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure. Henry David Thoreau ignorance education children Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline. Henry David Thoreau addresses discipline world The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body. Henry David Thoreau successful writing giving Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy. Henry David Thoreau paper writing book I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it. Henry David Thoreau ifs feels life A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck. Henry David Thoreau silent inspirational book If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end. Henry David Thoreau indulge-in style long Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them. Henry David Thoreau simple writing art I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me. Henry David Thoreau land simple men We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment. Henry David Thoreau ecology earth civilization Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe. Henry David Thoreau hoe bogs culture Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison; but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots. Henry David Thoreau nature roots art Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more. Henry David Thoreau can-do may art It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected; too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself. Henry David Thoreau nature mirrors art In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result,but a greater refinement already than is ever attained by man.... Nature is prepared to welcome into her scenery the finest work of human art, for she is herself an art so cunning that the artist never appears in his work. Henry David Thoreau nature men art But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art. Henry David Thoreau eye doe art The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact. Henry David Thoreau foolish-man men art There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap enough. There may benothing lofty in the sentiment, or fine in the expression, but it is careless country talk. Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. Some have this merit only. Henry David Thoreau country book art Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses. Henry David Thoreau condiments senses taste
