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Minott is, perhaps, the most poetical farmer—who most realizes to me the poetry of the farmer’s life—that I know. He does nothing with haste and drudgery, but as if he loved it. He makes the most of his labor, and takes infinite satisfaction in every part of it. He is not looking forward to the sale of his crops or any pecuniary profit, but he is p
... See moreHenry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
The eloquence of inadequacy is richly comforting, entoiling the futile man in beglamouring postulations of the impossible. Hugh Kenner, The Invisible Poet: T. S. Eliot
Adam Phillips • On Giving Up
decayed wood is not old, but has just begun to be what it is.
Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
His writings and lectures on the Ice Age lent a whole new aura to the New England landscape just at the time when the New England landscape was being “discovered” by poets and painters, and White Mountain hotels had become the rage.
David McCullough • Brave Companions
Favorite Poems
Benyamin Elias • 41 cards
That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection
Cloud-puffball, torn tufts, tossed pillows | flaunt forth, then chevy on an air-
Built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs | they throng; they glitter in marches.
Down roughcast, down dazzling whitewash, | wherever an elm arches,
Shivelights and s
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Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.