Penury

Penury has been a repeating motif for poets throughout the ages, but advertising has always been one possible source of income for the modern jobbing wordsmith.

Poetry in advertising 2009

Penury will bring benefits for the US and for others, Mandelbaum admits, since an era of scarce resources will make the country less prone to mistakes.

The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era by Michael Mandelbaum 2010

The economic explanation for Spain's limited contribution to scientific knowledge is made by David Goodman, Power and Penury: Government, Technology, and Science in Philip II's Spain (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988). back

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Right soothfast is the saw, ‘Penury maketh strangerhood at home and money maketh a home in strangerhood’; and indeed the poet speaks truth when he saith,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Pretty in Penury copyright © 2007 by Lisa Gabriele

Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007

Pretty in Penury copyright © 2007 by Lisa Gabriele

Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007

Pretty in Penury copyright © 2007 by Lisa Gabriele

Dont You Forget About Me Jaime Clarke 2007

Penury is the worst slavery, and will soon lead to death.

Lay Morals 2005

On a lower floor lived a strange red-haired girl,81 all whose thoughts were set upon painting and poetry, conceived as abstract images like Love and Penury in the Symposium; and to these images she sacrificed herself with Asiatic fanaticism.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

On a lower floor lived a strange red-haired girl,81 all whose thoughts were set upon painting and poetry, conceived as abstract images like Love and Penury in the Symposium; and to these images she sacrificed herself with Asiatic fanaticism.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965