What, after all, does the practicalness of life amount to? The things immediate to be done are very trivial. I could postpone them... all to hear this locust sing. The most glorious fact in my experience is not anything that I have done or may hope to do, but a transient thought, or vision, or dream, which I have had. I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. But how can I communicate with the gods, who am a pencil-maker on the earth, and not be insane?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »