Poet Quote by William Logan Download Open image ““For poets the wages of sin are poverty.”” — William Logan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poet Poetry Poverty
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed. — Katie Davis Copy Share Image
“is it not written, that those who make haste to be rich, pierce themselves through with many sorrows?” — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Yes, we are overcharged for everything nowadays. I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Poverty is no crime; always remember that. After all, why should we despair? Our present difficulties will pass away, and God will right us.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“As a rich man sees no reason for rejoicing in a meager gift of bread until a turn of events leaves him impoverished, so… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
“When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language,… — William Logan Copy Share Image
We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the… — William Logan Copy Share Image
How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff… — William Logan Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
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