in Thoreau’s Journal:
The wayfarer’s tree! How good a name! Who be-stowed it? How did it get adopted?

The mass of men are very unpoetic, yet that Adam that names things is always a poet. The boor is ready to accept the name the poet gives. How nameless is the poet among us! He is abroad, but is not recognized. He does not get crowned with the laurel.
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