Pages 153–154.
The Common Sense of Political Economy (1910), Systematic and Constructive (Book I), "Money and Exchange" (ch. 4)
Context: But neither can anything we desire be got without money, or what money represents, i. e. without the command of exchangeable things. All the things that we so often say "cannot be had for money" we might with equal truth say cannot be had or enjoyed without it. Friendship cannot be had for money, but how often do the things that money commands enable us to form and develop our friendships! … But even "waiting" requires money, if not so much as marrying does. In fact, a man can be neither a saint, nor a lover, nor a poet, unless he has comparatively recently had something to eat. The things that money commands are strictly necessary to the realisation on earth of any programme whatsoever. The range of things, then, that money can command in no case secures any of those experiences or states of consciousness which make up the whole body of ultimately desired things, and yet none of the things that we ultimately desire can be had except on the basis of the things that money can command. Hence nothing that we really want can infallibly be secured by things that can be exchanged, but neither can it under any circumstances be enjoyed without them.
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Anne Sexton 120
poet from the United States 1928–1974Related quotes
“Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“I have no ambitions nor desires.
To be a poet is not my ambition,
It's simply my way of being alone.”
Não tenho ambições nem desejos
Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha
É a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
Alberto Caeiro (heteronym), O Guardador de Rebanhos ("The Keeper of Herds", tr. Richard Zenith) in Athena (January 1925)
“There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world.”
Ransoming the Time (1941), p. 14.
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch.3
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 165
Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., December 5, 1996 http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/1996/19961205.htm.
1990s
“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
Nor time unmake what poets know.”
"The Test", as quoted in Emerson As A Poet (1883) by Joel Benton, p. 40
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)