“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
“To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.”
“Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.”
“Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it sound like a faith.”
“He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.”
“Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.”