Accents Quote by Wallace Stevens

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent…

— Wallace Stevens (1879_1955

“I came to think of poverty of speech as a reflection of the richness of the mind, giving it time to explore and develop…

— Anonymous

“Poverty is the curse of ancient but numerous lineages.”

— Judith Merkle Riley

“It is not poverty that is to be heared, but the lack of balance between riches and poverty.”

— Pearl S. Buck

“We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of…

— T. Greenwood

“Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“To fight the poverty, we must feel the poverty.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“This is the only poverty: ignorance of oneself—there is no other poverty.”

— Osho

“In all my travels I saw very little real poverty, I mean the grinding terrifying poorness of the Thirties. That at least was real…

— John Steinbeck

“Poverty is a curse. Don't call it. It takes few generations to come out from the curse of poverty.”

— Nazmul Ahmed Noyon

“beyond blows and hunger there is something that hurts even more: poverty”

— Jacob Dinezon

“Poverty is a condition that resides in the heart . . . not in the wallet.”

— Jo Ann V. Glim