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I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

Henry David Thoreau
Lakes, Sea, Fishing
Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.219, Modern Library
I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.