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You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

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

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

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

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

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

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.

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.