Honey Quote by Anne Sexton

The thing about the poetry is that, because of the way it started, it was always something on the side. There's nobody more surprised…

— Tim Key

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a…

— Viggo Mortensen

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to…

— Campbell McGrath

Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the…

— Seth Godin

I've always thought my poems told stories.

— Douglas Dunn

I read poetry every day. I look at it as an exercise, a kind of T'ai Chi for writers. It teaches economy of form.

— Roger Zelazny

Poetry is priceless… a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

— Robert Frost

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable…

— Robert Bringhurst

I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.

— Kenneth Rexroth

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

— Louise Closser Hale

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody…

— Eileen Myles