Money Quote by Tim Key

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable…

— Robert Bringhurst

. . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not…

— Plato

People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to…

— Campbell McGrath

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

— Paul Muldoon

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

— Anne Sexton

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

— Marie Ponsot

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

— Erica Jong

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a…

— Viggo Mortensen

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

— Paul Muldoon

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

— Robert Graves

You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I sold about…

— Tony Harrison

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

— Louise Closser Hale