Date: December 1847
"These were days when my heart was volcanic / As the scoriac rivers that roll-- / As the lavas that restlessly roll / Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek / In the ultimate climes of the pole."
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Date: 1850
"My imagination was a tarnished mirror. It would not reflect, or only with miserable dimness, the figures with which I did my best to people it."
preview | full record— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Date: 1850
"The characters of the narrative would not be warmed and rendered malleable by any heat that I could kindle at my intellectual forge."
preview | full record— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Date: March 17, 1852
"I make the truest observations and distinctions then, when the will is yet wholly asleep and the mind works like a machine without friction."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"Snipes and woodcocks also may afford rare sport; but I trust it would be nobler game to shoot one’s self."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"Patriotism is a maggot in their heads."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact, that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many tho...
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)