<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_29940">Hello Sunjoo. Maybe you've already found</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_29939">this but there's a blogsite where the writer</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_30042">quotes Thoreau as author of your quote.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_29885">Maybe you'd be interested in asking them</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_29886">about the source. Hope this helps. Link</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_29887">below. Best wishes, William</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_29888"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_29889"><<a href="http://blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu/tag/thoreau/" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_29926">http://blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu/tag/thoreau/</a>><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_29941"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_30039"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489678207919_30040"><span></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:33 AM, Sunjoo Lee <abgrund@naver.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8119412786"><style>#yiv8119412786 p{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}</style><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Gulim;"><div>Dear all, </div><div> </div><div>Gaston Bachelard cites Thoreau on p. 118 of <i>The Poetics of Reverie</i>: </div><div> </div><div>Thoreau wrote: "It seems that we only languish during maturity in order to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish from our memory before we were able to learn their language." </div><div> </div><div>The footnote gives a citation from a French translation of <i>Walden</i>, which I couldn't get hold of. </div><div>Does anyone recognize the quote, as from <i>Walden</i> or from perhaps somewhere else? I did some search (Google, Project Gutenberg) and it seems <i>Walden</i> doesn't contain that sentence. </div><div> </div><div>Maybe it <i>is</i> really from <i>Walden</i>, but a re-translation (a severe one?!) of a French translation. </div><div>I'm hoping someone has a clue! </div><div> </div><div>(I'm thinking about that sentence in relation to a project on Woolf. I hope this isn't an incongruous topic on the listserv.) </div><div> </div><div>All best, </div><div>Sunjoo </div></div></div>
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