Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. H
  4. Henry David Thoreau
  5. We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism, Enjoy, Knows
'Journal' 1 October 1856 (published 1903)
We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.