Being successful Quote by Cate Marvin

You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I sold about…

— Tony Harrison

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.

— Matthea Harvey

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

— John Cooper Clarke

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime,…

— John Cooper Clarke

I consider that success for anything, whether it's being a musician or a writer. As long as you can support yourself, you're successful. People…

— Joan Jett

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great…

— Donald Hall

A good poem about failure is a success.

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

— Edward Hirsch

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

— Cecil Taylor

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

— Jack London