Attributed in: Yuji Takahashi " For Paik http://www.suigyu.com/yuji/en-text/paik.html," exhibition catalogue “ Bye-bye Nam June Paik http://www.watarium.co.jp/exhibition/0606_paik_en.html” at Watarium Museum, 2006.
1970s
1860s, Speech to Germans at Cincinnati, Ohio (1861), Commercial version
“I am the poor man's poet; because I am poor myself and I have known what it is to be in love. Not being able to pay them in presents, I pay my mistresses in poetry.”
Pauperibus vates ego sum, quia pauper amavi;
Cum dare non possem munera, verba dabam.
Book II, lines 165–166 (tr. J. Lewis May)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
“I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself”
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Philosophers (Regnery, 1969), p. 75
Context: Aeschines said to him, "I am a poor man and have nothing else to give, but I offer you myself," and Socrates answered, "Nay, do you not see that you are offering me the greatest gift of all?"
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
“Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/03/rand_paul_foreign_aid_goes_from_poor_people_in_rich_countries_to_rich_people_in_poor_countries.html, University of Kentucky, 3-27-2013.
2010s
“I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.”
His last will, as quoted in an obituary in The Maine Catholic Historical Magazine (1914) Volumes 3-6, p. 17
Diary (26 April 1876) as quoted in Garfield (1978) by Allen Peskin, Ch. 13
1870s
Arthur Young (1771), The Farmer's Tour through the East of England, v. 4, p. 361 https://archive.org/stream/farmerstourthrou04youn#page/360/mode/2up.
The Portal of the Mystery of Hope (1912)
that's my slogan.
Huey Long (T. Harry Williams, Huey Long, p. 706)
