"The poet is a man who lives..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.”
“None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.”
“I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.”
More on Creativity
“All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.”
“When your fulfillment and sense of self are no longer dependent on the future outcome, joy flows into whatever you do. You do what you do because the action itself is fulfilling. Whatever you do or create in that state is of high quality. This is because it is not a means to an end, and so a loving care flows into your doing.”