Art Quote by Edward Conard

There's not that many jobs in poetry.

— Tim Key

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

— Robert Morgan

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much…

— Robert Frost

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

— Jeffery Deaver

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny

— Mikhail Dudan

The arts are not a way to make a living,

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Edward Hirsch

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as…

— John Dewey

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

— Cate Marvin