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“Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.”

Age Night Wealth Silence Poverty Youth Greatness Expression Old Age Day And Night

Book:Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

Source: Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

“He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.”

Ifs Silence Known Poverty Taken Heard Forgotten Richness

Author:Nicole Krauss

“All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.”

Thinking Believe Made Dream Pain Beautiful Used Felt Silence Poverty Guilt Simplicity Generous Nightmare Sense Of Humor Waking Ugliness Eloquent Awkwardness

Book:The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“EPITAPH Now I'm not the brightest knife in the drawer, but I know a couple things about this life: poverty silence, impermanence discipline and mystery The world is not illusory, we are From crimson thread to toe tag If you are not disturbed there is something seriously wrong with you, I'm sorry And I know who I am I'll be a voice coming from nowhere, inside-- be glad for me.”

Source: Walking to Martha's Vineyard

“In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.”

Ends Past Joy Certain Secret Silence Poverty Simplicity Dinner Oil The End Of The Day Sweetness Lamps

Book:Happy Death

Source: Happy Death