The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Weitere Zitate von Henry David Thoreau
Zum Autor"I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business."
"As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground."
"What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?"
"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."