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I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.

Henry David Thoreau
Disappointment, Poetry, Too Much
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin
I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.