Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four. " They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.
To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat. , Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil. ]