Gains Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

— Robert Frost

A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money…

— Robert Graves

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

— Samuel Johnson

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he…

— W. H. Auden

“and a day spent working for money is wasted while a day spent writing poetry is wasted but more honest.”

— Anonymous

“Because life is so much more than internet, bank balance, and materialistic possessions. Poets don't dream of becoming millionaires.”

— Avijeet Das

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn,…

— Keith Miller

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

— Anonymous

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

A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against.

— Rod McKuen

“Because Poets don't dream of becoming millionaires.”

— Avijeet Das

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

— Michael P. Naughton