So...What Poets Inspire You?

[billy]

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

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but yep i suppose some can, that said the ones that earn from talks and lectures have usually paid the poetry dues through writing poetry as well.
the ones who do the talks and don't write are more critic than poet in my opinion. the real truth is that it is extremly hard for tmost to make any kind of living through poetry. some do but considering how many poets are out there the percentages are really really small.