Amazed Quote by Debra Dean

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

— Cate Marvin

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

— Edward Hirsch

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that…

— Jack Nicholson

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself…

— Seamus Heaney

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to…

— Charles Dickens

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.

— William Everson

“If you want to be an actor, don’t. If you need to be an actor, do.”

— Derek Jacobi

It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be something vaguely…

— Matthew Zapruder

“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her in a…

— Ling Ma

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and…

— Therese of Lisieux

“The gift of singleness is more a vocation than an empowerment, although to be sure God is faithful in supporting those He calls.”

— John R.W. Stott

We have only to see how that which makes up the reality of our lives relates to our vocation; we have only to hear…

— Jean Danielou

“The vocation of a man lies in his vision.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

One needs more than ambition and talent to make a success of anything, really. There must be love and a vocation.

— Jessye Norman