Henry David Thoreau: I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this ince

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philos — Henry David Thoreau

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business.

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