Orts #697

  
 
There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.
      -- Robert Graves
 
 
Sometimes we have to make difficult subjects beautiful in order to be able to look at them.
     -- James Kudelka
 
 
To forget the world's abundance, even briefly and in a moment of spiritual penury, is to lose one's toehold on the ladder.
     -- E. B. White, in The New Yorker, November 29, 1952