 I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...  Walden - Seite 143von Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 357 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Dolis - 2005 - 244 Seiten
...to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. ... to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms" (W, 90-91). As with fire, reduction is the genuine gauge of existence — both the princip(le)al and... | |
 | Richard S. Gilbert - 2005 - 118 Seiten
...came to die, discover that I had not lived ... to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life .... to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms; for most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or... | |
 | R. Bruce Hull - 2006 - 273 Seiten
...is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.13 One oft-quoted lesson Thoreau learned from his studies is that wildness— in humans and in... | |
 | Deborah L. Tidwell, Linda Fitzgerald - 2006 - 325 Seiten
...life was that I might get distracted and forget, as Henry David Thoreau (1854) had put it, "to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life" (p. 60). So I went to California. It was there that I discovered how much of a hometown boy I was.... | |
 | Paul Hawker - 2007 - 226 Seiten
...what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived... I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a comer, and reduce it to its lowest terms. HENRY DAVID THOREAU one else's discomfort to consider. I... | |
 | Ellen Brandenburg - 2017 - 140 Seiten
...living is so dear, Nor do I wish to practice resignation, unless it is quite necessary. I wish to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live...sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that is not life; I want to cut a broad swath and shave dose, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it... | |
 | Virginia Stem Owens - 2007 - 179 Seiten
...to its internal character. Thoreau hoped to "live deep and suck all the marrow of life." He aimed to "shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms." Creation's single-mindedness appealed to Thoreau; the woods and the pond and the sky all did precisely... | |
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