Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poets are born, not paid.
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 while, someone might pay to hear me read.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Money is a kind of poetry.
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.