If you find any beauty herein
 Take it.
 — Not as a charting of beauty,
 but evidence
 treasure abounds
 in wilderness;
proof
 for your court
 to approve a course
 to explore yourself ’round:
 risk the abyss.

explore your own higher latitudes — with shiploads of preserved meats to support you, if they be necessary; and pile the empty cans sky-high for a sign. Were preserved meats invented to preserve meat merely? Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. Their truth is instantly translated; its literal monument alone remains. The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Thoreau, in his conclusion of Walden