Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Thoreau, Poetry in Motion, Q Train, Manhattan Bridge


"Men Say They Know Many Things"

Men say they know many things;
But lo! They have taken wings,--
The arts and the sciences,
And a thousand appliances;
The wind that blows
Is all that anybody knows.


--Henry David Thoreau

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:16 PM

    You missed the word "that" in the last line.

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  2. Thanks for the keen observation. It has been amended,

    Bill

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