Saturday, August 25, 2012

Poets and Money by Charles Simic | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

Poets and Money by Charles Simic | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books:

"Even Robert Frost, who was immensely popular and widely read during his lifetime, had to get a teaching job to support himself. As for the rest of our great poets, going back to Whitman and Dickinson, their combined income from poetry, if it were known, would make them even more incomprehensible in the eyes of many Americans than they already are."


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