Henry David Thoreau Quote

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.


A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers (ed. 1866)


Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his...

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his...

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his...

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his...