Fame Quote by Tony Harrison

Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime,…

— John Cooper Clarke

“Now, you might think that because there are more poets than ever, there might be more opportunities for poets than ever. And you’d be…

— Jim Behrle

It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book…

— Allison Joseph

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

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

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

— Louise Closser Hale

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

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read…

— Mark Strand

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

— Erica Jong

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

The thing about the poetry is that, because of the way it started, it was always something on the side. There's nobody more surprised…

— Tim Key