To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

The saying argues that gratitude does not require an audience or public display to be real. A private act of thanks—addressed to God, conscience, or the moral order—is portrayed as sufficient because gratitude is not a social performance but a spiritual or inward truth. The image of “Thanksgiving” having “wings” suggests that sincere gratitude carries its own force and destination: it reaches beyond the person who utters it, regardless of whether others witness it. The final line implies humility about one’s own motives and outcomes: prayer (or the act of giving thanks) contains meanings and effects that exceed the speaker’s self-understanding.