Beggar

Famous quotes containing the word beggar:

“A beggar said, “They get the most
Whom man or devil cannot tire,
And what could make their muscles taut
Unless desire had made them so?””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“But the beggar gazes on calamity
And thereafter he belongs to it, to bread
Hard found, and water tasting of misery.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied ... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)