Suck the marrow of life
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.
Suck the Marrow Out of Life
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. In this quote from "Walden," Henry David Thoreau is giving his advice about how to live one's life. Explain this quote from Thoreau's Walden: "Nothing.
Dead Poet’s Society – Suck out all the marrow of life
24 Jan “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.
Description:So even though my Breathe-a-tron is a big, bulky pain in the ass to lug around, lug it with me I must. A lot of big meanings can hide in little things, Shmoopers. Ultimately, the project will provide a space for readers to discuss Thoreau in the margins of his texts. The Pond in Winter: White stated on this note, "Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives—the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight", [6] while Leo Marx noted that Thoreau's stay at Walden Pond was an experiment based on his teacher Emerson 's "method of nature" and that it was a "report of an experiment in transcendental pastorialism ". No human older than an adolescent would wantonly murder any creature which reveres its own life as much as the killer. Some of the major themes that are present within the text are:
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