Career Quote by Robert Frost

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

— Robert Graves

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

— Kathleen Raine

Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny

— 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

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

— Edward Hirsch

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

— Bob Dylan

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

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

— Deborah Levy

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

— Joseph Campbell

“Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.”

— Leonard Cohen

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

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

— Mary Webb