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"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
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"To make dollars from cents you have to have sense."
"Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth."
"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty."
"Egoism and Money [Goddess of wealth; Lakshmi] are very much at odds [have great enmity]. There should be just enough egoism to accomplish one's work. Beyond that, any expanded egoism and money have great enmity. Money (Lakshmi) stays away from it."
"Money cannot buy you love. But it sure can buy you things that some people will love you for having."
"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
"If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them."
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"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."
"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."
"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."
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