“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.” PeopleWellsLittlesCountryRememberRomanceUsedDiesPassionHalfBoysPovertyWonderfulSeaChildhoodIgnoranceMiseryUnhappyTreatedConfusedSuperstitionsAutobiographyLittle BoysEccentricityShabbyYeatsAnachronism Author:Randall Jarrell
“There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.” MayLosesLossPoorPovertySeaLandAdvantageNothing To Lose Author:Elizabeth Inchbald
“Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.” StoriesProcessPovertyMillionsSeaMiseryFinancialImmigrationAttractiveGiantsContradictionFrustrationFuryTransformingTouristsIstanbulSad StoryAnger Frustration Author:Orhan Pamuk
“Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because of the way the press plays it, he will say terrorism is his biggest fear. But for somebody living on a small island state, then it is climate change, the rise of the sea level, for his whole island may be washed away. If I go to southern Africa, they tell me it is HIV/AIDS and somewhere in Asia it is poverty. This is also why you will find it difficult to find agreements, because if you want someone to be concerned about your threat, then you should be concerned about his.” IfsWayWantShouldMayPersonsDifferentStatesPlayWholeTodayAsksDifficultLevelsPovertySeaConcernedPressesThreatClimateClimate ChangeTerrorismAidsIslandsAgreementSouthernAsiaHivNew YorkersLiving OnHiv AidsWhere You LiveBiggest FearSouthern Africa Author:Kofi Annan
“I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.” TryingFacesYoungNamesBlackPoorBoysPovertySeaSwimmingNew OrleansBlack Boy Author:Tyler Perry
“Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush’s dog getting a book deal.” KnowsWritingTryingWellsBookVoiceDealsPovertyOne ThingSeaDogLaborTradeRejectionPaceObscurityNuanceBarbara Author:Timothy Egan
“When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact...that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance; We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish, and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters.” MenLooksKindFactsWisdomEarthFacesSpiritSufferingWalksPovertyAirSeaModernHavensBrotherBirdAngerFishesAbundanceSwimContrastTechnologicalBrothers And SistersModern Man Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.” FoundLostPovertySeaGrewGrew UpLuxuryGrayUnbearableSumptuous Book:Lyrical and Critical Essays Source: Lyrical and Critical Essays