Career Quote by Mikhail Dudan

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of…

— Mary Oliver

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

— Kathleen Raine

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Robert Graves

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

— Edward Hirsch

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

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

— Cate Marvin

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

To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art.…

— Cate Marvin

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

There's not that many jobs in poetry.

— Tim Key

“Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.”

— Leonard Cohen