On this day (February 3) in the year 1841, Henry David Thoreau entered the following thoughts in his journal. This text is from Bradford Torrey [edit.] "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau; Journal I; 1837- 1846" (Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1906) page 189: - - - - - - - Feb. 2. Tuesday. It is easy to repeat, but hard to originate. Nature is readily made to repeat herself in a thousand forms, and in the daguerreotype her own light is amanuensis, and the picture too has more than a surface significance,--a depth equal to the prospect,--so that the microscope may be applied to the one as the spy-glass to the other. Thus we may easily multiply the forms of the outward; but to give the within outwardness, that is not easy. That an impression may be taken, perfect stillness, though but for an instant, is necessary. There is something analogous in the birth of all rhymes. -------------------------------------------------------------- 02-02-99