_Poet._ See those clouds; how they hang! That's the greatest thing I h… — Walden

Walden — Henry David Thoreau

_Poet._ See those clouds; how they hang! That's the greatest thing I have seen to-day. There's nothing like it in old paintings, nothing like it in foreign lands--unless when we were off the coast of Spain. That's a true Mediterranean sky. I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten to-day, that I might go a-fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned. Come, let's along.

Place: ¶398
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