Relaxation Rewind! Biographical Sketch of Henry David Thoreau, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Source of Poetry in Poetry
His eyes were open to beauty and his ear to music. He found poetic suggestion in the humming of a telegraph wire. His own verses were often rude and effective. The gold does not yet run pure, is drossy and crude. But he was so enamored of spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very lightest steam in the comparison.
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