"Poetry is nothing but healthy speech...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.”

“Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.”

“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.”

“There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.”

“I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.”

“Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.”

“Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.”

“Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.”

“True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.”