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> [Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it…I personally know so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-kay/think-it-s-so-unfair-when-people-think-that-you-re-not-a-real-artist/)

[Sarah Kay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-kay/)

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> [“Scientists should think like poets and work like accountants.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-o-wilson-2/scientists-should-think-like-poets-and-work-like-accountants/)

[E.O. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-o-wilson-2/)

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> [I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrienne-rich/i-think-poets-should-work-in-the-non-literary-non-academic-world-get/)

[Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrienne-rich/)

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> [While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thom-gunn/while-i-don-t-satisfy-my-curiosity-about-the-way-i-work-i-m-terribly/)

[Thom Gunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thom-gunn/)

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> [“Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dona-mayoora/poetry-is-a-poets-work-in-clandestine-chemistry-and-there-is-no-ethic/)

[Dona Mayoora](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dona-mayoora/)

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