“who'll save the poor little girl?
oh, Henry…
who'll tell the story of her?
Henry Darger”
Natalie Merchant (1963) American singer-songwriter
Song lyrics, Motherland (2001), Henry Darger
Interview to Vice. Meet Brazil's Donald Trump: He's Deliberately Outrageous and He Wants to Be President https://news.vice.com/article/meet-brazils-donald-trump-hes-deliberately-outrageous-and-he-wants-to-be-president. Vice (27 April 2016).
“who'll save the poor little girl?
oh, Henry…
who'll tell the story of her?
Henry Darger”
Natalie Merchant (1963) American singer-songwriter
Song lyrics, Motherland (2001), Henry Darger
Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
On Puerto Rico in “A Graphic Revolution Talking Poetry & Politics with Giannina Braschi” https://www.academia.edu/36916781/A_Graphic_Revolution_Talking_Poetry_and_Politics_with_Giannina_Braschi in Chiricú Journal (2018)
“This poor little one-horse town.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
"The Undertaker's Chat", first published as "A Reminiscence of the Back Settlements" in The Galaxy, Vol. 10, No. 5, November 1870 http://books.google.com/books?id=2TIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA731. Anthologized in Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old http://books.google.com/books?id=5LcIAAAAQAAJ (1875)
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
written line on a photograph she gave Diego. (1946)
In 1946 Frida painted 'The Little Deer', her self-portrait as a wounded stag; her health took an irreversible turn for the worse, then.
1946 - 1953
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Second Dialogue; translated by Judith R. Bush, Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters
Dialogues: Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques (published 1782)
“305. He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) English librettist of the Gilbert & Sullivan duo
The Suicide's Grave (from The Mikado).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Tom Lehrer (1928) American singer-songwriter and mathematician
"National Brotherhood Week"
That Was the Year That Was (1965)
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.