Afford Quote by Len G. Murray

Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him. But to…

— Sister Nivedita

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!”

— Avijeet Das

Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be able to…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Because Poets don't dream of becoming millionaires.”

— Avijeet Das

Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no…

— William Carlos Williams

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

— Carl Sandburg

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

— Christian Morgenstern

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

— Robert Penn Warren

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

— Marita Golden

A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money…

— Robert Graves

“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy for those who…

— Paul Bourget