WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:53:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg immediately – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Thoreau, Henry David -- Journal (10 Feb 1852) https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/28934/ https://wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/28934/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2015 12:58:16 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=28934 Write while the heat is in you. When the farmer burns a hole in his yoke, he carries the hot iron quickly from the fire to the wood, for every moment is less effectual to penetrate (pierce) it. It must be used instantly or it is useless. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.


Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) American philosopher and writer
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