
“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