Buried Quote by John Locke

No one ever expects poetry to sell...

— Alan Lightman

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

— Mary Oliver

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its making where executives Would never want to tamper, flows on south From…

— W.H. Auden

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

— Louise Closser Hale

When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

— Derek Walcott

“Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that…

— Bryant McGill

“Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit…

— Harley King

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

— Henrik Ibsen

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

— Mark Strand

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

— Paul Muldoon