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Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Feet, Poetry
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.279, Simon and Schuster
Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.