poet-capitalist

Updated: June 3, 2025

So far indeed is wealth from stimulating the imagination nowadays that a banker is the very type of the unimaginative man, and the faintest suspicion of genius is enough to render a financier an object of suspicion to the money market. But it is conceivable in the odd freaks of things that we may yet see the advent of the Poet-Capitalist.

John Richard Greene - Stray Studies from England and Italy

For nobler outlets we must wait for the advent of the Poet-Capitalist. A little higher up the river, but almost opposite to the huge mass of the Houses of Parliament, lies a broken, irregular pile of buildings, at whose angle, looking out over the Thames, is one grey weatherbeaten tower.

John Richard Greene - Stray Studies from England and Italy