Art Quote by Matthew Shenoda

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

— Michael P. Naughton

“Poetry is not business as usual.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

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

— Subhan Zein

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

— Ingrid Bengis

“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.”

— Major Jackson

“There's no money in poetry. Then again, there's no poetry in money either.”

— Robert Graves

“Poets have recently been misappropriating words in order to describe poetry as an economy that, outside the poem itself, has little to do with…

— Keneth Warren

“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”

— Robert Graves

“The attitude of the American to the dollar contains poetry.”

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their…

— Andrei Codrescu

“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 one of the easiest forms of writing; as long as you're willing to sell your soul to the world.”

— Shawna Platt (Angel Shadow