Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
JOHN BURROUGHSMore than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
More John Burroughs Quotes
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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