Complaining Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Who am I? I'm a poet. My business? Writing. How do I live? I live. In my happy poverty I squander like a prince,…

— Rodolfo La Bohmé

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

— Avijeet Das

Poetry is priceless… a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot

Let yourself become living poetry.

— Rumi

Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the…

— Og Mandino

“The problem with this poem, from your perspective, must be its lack of financial value. I guess my problem with you, from my perspective,…

— Peter Davis

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Kathleen Raine

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as…

— John Dewey

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

— Peter Davison

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace,…

— Tom Hodgkinson