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My life has been the poem I would have writ

by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.




Quotes of the Day

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you

• Virgil



Poems of the Day
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
    MacDougal Street
    by Edna St. Vincent Millay
    AS I went walking up and down to take the evening air, (Sweet to meet upon the street, why must I be so shy?) I saw him lay his hand upon her torn black hair;