in Thoreau’s Journal:

I am not taken up, like Moses, upon a mountain to learn the law, but lifted up in my seat here, in the warm sunshine and genial light.

Photo: July 2, 2008 near Beede Falls, Sandwich, New Hampshire

in Thoreau’s Journal:

The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper, coincident with the production of this—which is stereotyped in the poet’s life—is what he has become through his work…

Photo: July 1, 2019 along the Sandwich Notch Road, White Mountain National Forest, Sandwich, NH

Let not the artist expect that his true work will stand in any prince’s gallery.