Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Style

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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Blood, Style

1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.

Henry David Thoreau

Character, Poetry, Style

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.279, Delphi Classics

If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

Henry David Thoreau

Indulge In, Long, Style

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.240, Jazzybee Verlag

Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

Writing, Men, Style

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

Henry David Thoreau

Writing, Hands, Style

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

Every sentence is the result of a long probation.

Henry David Thoreau

Long, Style, Results

Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.111

Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.

Henry David Thoreau

Style, Veins, Peculiar

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.

Henry David Thoreau

Book, Style, Would Be

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art.

Henry David Thoreau

Art, Nature, Style

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.953, Delphi Classics

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.

Henry David Thoreau

Fall, Writing, Style

1857 Letter to Daniel Ricketson, 18 Aug.

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

Henry David Thoreau

Wise, Style, Oratory

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.516, Simon and Schuster

Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month's labor in the farmer's almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.

Henry David Thoreau

Simple, Men, Style

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.517, Simon and Schuster

When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.

Henry David Thoreau

Expression, Style, Firsts

Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt