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

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Author:Robert Frost

“Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.”

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Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

“Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.”

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Author:David Hume

“It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.”

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Author:Jan Peacock

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

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Author:Robert Graves

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

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Author:Kathleen Raine

“A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.”

Source: The shores of light: a literary chronicle of the twenties and thirties

“One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World