The Blog of Henry David Thoreau: higher society...Thoreau's Journal: 18-Feb-1841

2.18.2014

higher society
...Thoreau's Journal: 18-Feb-1841

Sometimes I find that I have frequented a higher society during sleep, and my thoughts and actions proceed on a higher level in the morning.

2 comments:

michael jameson said...: any time we are inspired be it from a dream a person or a visit we can find a want or jealousy to be just that,we will mimic the person or situation hoping to become just that,it is an admiration of sort,but who we are soon finds its way back. michael jameson oldantiqueguy@hotmail.com; Mar 4, 2010, 6:48:00 PM
michael jameson said...: it is true that when we dream of a higher society or meet someone we would like to be, it may only be the way one speaks, we find ourselves unconsciously mimicking the same, but our old self does creep back in,for we can not help being who we are. michael jameson oldantiqueguy@hotmail.com; Mar 9, 2010, 2:47:00 PM

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one of the native forces

“Thoreau was a surprising fellow—he is not easily grasped—is elusive: yet he is one of the native forces—stands for a fact, a movement, an upheaval: Thoreau belongs to America, to the transcendental, to the protesters: then he is an outdoor man: all outdoor men everything else being equal appeal to me. Thoreau was not so precious, tender, a personality as Emerson: but he was a force—he looms up bigger and bigger: his dying does not seem to have hurt him a bit: every year has added to his fame.”

~Walt Whitman as recorded by Horace Traubel

the simple print

The text is from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Bradford Torrey and Francis Allen, 14 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906).

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