Famous Quotes | A glimpse through an interstice...

A glimpse through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a barroom around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremarked seated in a corner,
Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and
oath and smutty jest,
There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little,
perhaps not a word.
- Walt Whitman
Attribution: Walt Whitman (1819–1892), U.S. poet. A Glimpse (l. 1–6). . . The Complete Poems [Walt Whitman]. Francis Murphy, ed. (1975; repr. 1986) Penguin Books.

Categories: Companionship, Homosexuality, Love

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