There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
Money is a kind of poetry.
You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.
Poets are born, not paid.
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true.
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.
When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.