Poverty Rate

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“You know what? Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

“We honor motherhood with glowing sentimentality, but we don’t rate it high on the scale of creative occupations.”
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