You shall not withhold the wages of poor and needy laborers, whether other Israelites or aliens who reside in your land in one of ...your towns. You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the LORD against you, and you would incur guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who h...ave appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That I am a poet in an age where the "unintellectual" (i.e., almost everybody) think of poetry as something they didn't like when ...they were at school, and the intellectual think it something the masses should be excluded from, is sad for me. This age has far too much reverence for poetry and too little respect--for by the same token it is very difficult indeed to earn a living from poetry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you are beginning, you will find you give better performances in the evening if you stay quiet during the day--no lunches, an...d certainly no cocktail parties. Remember you are overpaid, so take your money at the end of the week with as clear a conscience as you can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »