“Everything belongs to me because I am poor.”
Visions Of Cody (1973) and The Beginning Of Bop (1959)
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Lecture (December 19, 2007)
“Everything belongs to me because I am poor.”
Visions Of Cody (1973) and The Beginning Of Bop (1959)
                                
                                    “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)
                                    
“Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.”
Last words
                                        
                                        Diary (26 April 1876) as quoted in Garfield (1978) by Allen Peskin, Ch. 13 
1870s