WHAT you give me, I cheerfully accept, <br /> A little sustenance, a hut and garden, a little money--these, as I <br /> rendezvous with my poems; <br /> A traveler's lodging and breakfast as I journey through The States-- <br /> Why should I be ashamed to own such gifts? Why to advertise for <br /> them? <br /> For I myself am not one who bestows nothing upon man and woman; <br /> For I bestow upon any man or woman the entrance to all the gifts of <br /> the universe.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-rich-givers/
