Fame-quotes Quote by Avijeet Das

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.”

— Kathy Skaggs

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.”

— Julian Barnes

“What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my…

— Harley King

“On Writing Poetry: Take everyday words beyond everyday talent and write them alive.”

— C.J. Heck

“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves,…

— CK Webb

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Robert Frost

“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their…

— Andrei Codrescu

“If poetry is what you live for then do it write.”

— R.M. Engelhardt