“Everything belongs to me because I am poor.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
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.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Visions Of Cody (1973) and The Beginning Of Bop (1959)
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai book Shah Jo Risalo
-Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Shah Jo Risalo
Shah Jo Risalo
“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.
Ovid book Ars amatoria
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.”
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) English philosopher, born 1588
Last words
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Diary (26 April 1876) as quoted in Garfield (1978) by Allen Peskin, Ch. 13
1870s