Henry David Thoreau Adequate Quotations

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.