Bills Quote by Erica Jong

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

— Cate Marvin

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I…

— Josh Lieb

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

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

— John Cooper Clarke

After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a…

— Chris Pavone

Let yourself become living poetry.

— Rumi

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

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.

— Tucker Max

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying.…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Even if you're a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you're still in the world - although I guess being a poet…

— Abel Ferrara

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