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Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

Henry David Thoreau
Poetry, Criticism, Taste
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1056, Delphi Classics

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Henry David Thoreau
Criticism, Literature, Quiet
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.267, Xist Publishing

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Imagination, Criticism

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Criticism, May
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.53, Jazzybee Verlag

Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.

Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy, Past, Criticism
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Criticism, Steps
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.3, Hayes Barton Press

No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.

Henry David Thoreau
Criticism, Analysis, Adequate
Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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