If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Henry David Thoreau |
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.
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Why do you stay here and live this mean moiling life, when a glorious existence is possible for you? Those same stars twinkle over other fields than these.
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Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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| — | Henry David Thoreau |
Gustave Dore - Paradiso Canto 31 - Rosa Celeste: Dante And Beatrice Gaze Upon The Highest Heaven, The Empyrean - Henry David Thoreau On Dreams, Imagination, & Memory
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“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
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“Poetry — 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. The poet does not need to see how meadows are something else than earth, grass, and water, but how they are thus much. He does not need discover that potato blows are as beautiful as violets, as the farmer thinks, but only how good potato blows are. The poem is drawn out from under the feet of the poet, his whole weight has rested on this ground. It has a logic more severe than the logician’s. You might as well think to go in pursuit of the rainbow, and embrace it on the next hill, as to embrace the whole of poetry even in thought.”
- Henry David Thoreau, January 26, 1840
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The Neverending Story
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“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
- Henry David Thoreau
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“Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society … may unexpectedly come forth … to enjoy its perfect summer life at last! … such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. … Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (died 6 May 1862)
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“As I love nature, as I love singing birds,
and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers,
and morning and evening, and summer and winter,
I love thee, my Friend.”
- Henry David Thoreau
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