If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
Source: In Poor Man's College Quotations Collection, ed. Sidney Madwed, AAPEX software, 1994.
-- Rainer M Rilke, (Dec 4 1875-1926), Austro-German poet; He became internationally famous with such works as Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus.