I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify.
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.
The art of life, of a poet’s life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
