Thursday, April 03, 2008

 

A Certain Fertile Sadness

Henry David Thoreau, Journal (August 17, 1851):
Why should pensiveness be akin to sadness? There is a certain fertile sadness which I would not avoid, but rather earnestly seek. It is positively joyful to me. It saves my life from being trivial.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 5:08 AM


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