...low yet needed some self-expression first of all. It is impossible to imagine him as writing puffs of himself, like Poe, or volunteering reports of receptions given to him, like Whitman. He said to Mr. Winter , again and again, What you desire will come, if you will but wait for it. The question is not whether this is the only form of the poetic temperament, but it was clearly his form of it. Thoreau we...