Date: w. 1798-1800, 1814
"To these emotions, whencesoe'er they come, / Whether from breath of outward circumstance, / Or from the Soul--an impulse to herself-- / I would give utterance in numerous verse."
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Date: 1854
"The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)