Career Quote by Mary Oliver

Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny

— Mikhail Dudan

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

— Kathleen Raine

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

— Edward Hirsch

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

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

— Robert Frost

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

— Toi Derricotte

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than…

— Dana Goodyear

Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture -…

— Maxine Kumin

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents,…

— Hart Crane

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

— Cate Marvin