Boring Quote by Sue Townsend

I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture -…

— Maxine Kumin

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

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

— Kathleen Raine

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

— Cate Marvin

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history,…

— Peter Ackroyd

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

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Robert Graves

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

Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or…

— Sam Shepard

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

— Robert Frost

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

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I…

— Josh Lieb