Poverty Level

Famous quotes containing the words poverty and/or level:

“It was not important that they survive.
What mattered was that they should bear
Some lineament or character,
Some affluence, if only half-perceived,
In the poverty of their words,
Of the planet of which they were part.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Even a nine story pagoda must be built up level by level.”
—Chinese proverb.