Business Quote by Judith Fitzgerald

“This isn't business. This is poetry.”

— Ingrid Bengis

“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”

— Philip Larkin

“Poetry is an art of economy.”

— Matthew Shenoda

“Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.”

— Michael P. Naughton

“Poetry is so unique and it doesn't compromise.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.”

— David Gordon

“Only poetry isn't shit.”

— Roberto Bolano

“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .”

— Wallace Stegner

“Poetry is language playing with itself.”

— Harryette Mullen

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald