Catching The Drift

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. - Thoreau

words are doornails; dead

lying prone upon a page

until they are read

Author's Note

"However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or above the fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds". - Thoreau