"Go Confidently in The Direction of Your Dreams Live The Life you've Imagined" cuff bracelet in sterling silver.
Poesy n. (arch. or poet.) short poem or sentiment decoratively inscribed on rings or jewelry, particularly of the Middle Ages. Usually a romantic gift or token of friendship.
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard College in 1837. He is considered to be one of the foremost American thinkers of his day or any other, and one of the leading figures of the transcendental movement with Ralph Waldo Emerson. In 1845 he began building his hut on Walden Pond, on Emerson's land. There he wrote his most famous work, Walden, which was published in August 1854. Walden is an account of his solitary existence there, living in close harmony with nature and what we now call the environment. As such we now regard him as a pioneer of environmentalism. He was a champion of the individual and a bulwark against the Victorian obsession with social conformity, as is reflected in this quotation, which has been widely attributed to him. As a nature writer, Thoreau has few if any peers. Walden was reprinted in 1862, the year of Thoreau's death and has remained in print to this day.