Poor Rich

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or rich:

“Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

“I stand on top
of our back steps and breathe the rich air—
a mother skunk with her column of kittens swills the garbage pail.
She jabs her wedge-head in a cup
of sour cream, drops her ostrich tail,
and will not scare.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)