My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle

Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard. – Bible

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. – Henry David Thoreau