Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.


A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (ed. 1873)

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only ...

Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only ...

Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only ...

Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only ...