Thoreau as poet

November 5, 2006, written by Jeremy. Read the commentary.

Thoreau’s prose turned to poetry:

it is only when we forget
all our learning
that we begin to know.

to conceive
with total apprehension
approach it as something
totally
strange.

if you would make acquaintance
with the ferns
forget your botany.

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