“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.”
Book II, lines 165–166 (tr. J. Lewis May)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Original
Pauperibus vates ego sum, quia pauper amavi; Cum dare non possem munera, verba dabam.
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Roman poet -43–17 BCRelated quotes
“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?"
“I am a poor man from a poor country, so I have to be entertaining every second.”
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
“Everything belongs to me because I am poor.”
Visions Of Cody (1973) and The Beginning Of Bop (1959)
“Is not because I am a poor sailor and fear the voyage to Skye.”
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Lecture (December 19, 2007)
“I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.”
Con mi encadenamiento a la tierra pago la libertad de mis ojos.
Voces (1943)
In Munshi Premchand:Biography, 10 December 2013, Internet Media Data Base http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0695919/bio,
“I am paying for this microphone!”
At a Republican primary debate in Nashua, New Hampshire (23 February 1980). The moderator had ordered the soundman to turn off Reagan's microphone, as Reagan was about to explain that as his campaign was paying for the debate which had originally been arranged by the Nashua Telegraph and that he had invited Bob Dole, Howard Baker, John B. Anderson, and Phil Crane, to be in it as well.
Video footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO2_49TycdE
1980s