Poetisches Leben | Poetic Living

For if it is not poetic…

By Donald in Art, Culture, Food for Thought, Poetry, Quote on
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“There is little or nothing to be remembered on the subject of getting an honest living. Neither the New Testament nor Poor Richard speaks to our condition. I cannot think of a single page which entertains, much less answers, the questions which I put to myself on this subject. How to make the getting our living poetic!  For if it is not poetic, it is not life but death that we get.”

~Henry David Thoreau, 1850

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"...money is a commodity to be bought or not to be bought, a luxury in which we may either indulge or stint ourselves, like any other. And there are many luxuries that we may legitimately prefer to it, such as a grateful conscience, a country life, or the woman of our inclination." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

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