Wealth with the flush hand and fine clothes and
hospitality:
But then the soul’s wealth-which is candor and
knowledge and pride and enfolding love:
Who goes for men and women showing poverty richer
than wealth?
Expression of speech..in what is written or said forget
not that silence is also expressive,
That anguish as hot as the hottest and contempt as cold as
the coldest may be without words,
That the true adoration is likewise without words and
without kneeling.
Walt Whitman for Monday…
From: Leaves of Grass 150th Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics), pg.157
