Career Quote by Tim Key

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

— Kathleen Raine

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

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny

— Mikhail Dudan

But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.

— Jeffery Deaver

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

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

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

— Robert Frost

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

— Paul Muldoon

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

— John Cooper Clarke

Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting does.

— Edward Conard

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

— Cate Marvin

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.

— Peter Porter