If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.
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