Red ribbon on a white horse
A source page for quotes linked to Anzia Yezierska.
“A poor man is a living dead one.”
“Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not”
“The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.”
“Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.”
“I tasted the bread and wine of equality.”
“Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.”
“In America, money takes the place of God.”
“The world is a wheel always turning.”
“If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.”
“When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
“The real thing creates its own poetry.”
“The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.”
“Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.”
“Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.”