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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

— Robert Frost

“On Writing Poetry: Take everyday words beyond everyday talent and write them alive.”

— C.J. Heck

Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption.

— Amitava Kumar

“Poetry is not something you have to retire from”

— John Cooper Clarke

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by…

— Wallace Stevens

Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.

— Jonathan Lethem

“What’s the use of writing poetry for your peers? I don’t think I should sell my poetry to other poets. If that’s who my…

— Harley King

“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.”

— Shira Wolosky

“Poets and writers don't live either for money or for fame. And even without any recognition for their work they keep on writing!”

— Avijeet Das

“am born a poet, of a low class without doubt yet a poet. This is my nature and vocation”),”

— Edward Hirsch

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

It is always better to write for the whole of society than for the poetry-reading public.

— Tony Harrison