40 Quotes by Anzia Yezierska

I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.

Hell, is trying to do what you can't do, trying to be what you're not

There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple.

Beloved, Dearest One:How I long to shout to the world our happiness. I feel that you and I are the only two people alive in the world - the only people that know the secret meaning of existence.I have no diamond rings, no gifts of love that other lovers have for their beloved. My poetry is all I have to offer you. And so I dedicate my collected verses, 'Poems of Poverty,' to you, beloved.Morris.

A poor man is a living dead one.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

The real thing creates its own poetry.