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Anonymous Fri Mar 16 16:45:16 2018 No.10851608 [Reply] [Original]

why is it no one has ever made any money off poetry?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 16 16:46:46 2018 No.10851618 mb because poetry is not for making money you dummy?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 16 16:47:17 2018 No.10851622 >>10851608 People have, just not the people who write it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 16 16:47:47 2018 No.10851626 >>10851608 People have made lots of money off the bible.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 16 16:48:02 2018 No.10851630 >>10851608 ts eliot became rich after his cats poems got turned into a broadway musical checkmate poetrylets

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>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 16 16:48:23 2018 No.10851635 >>10851608 Generally people don't pay for it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 16 16:49:11 2018 No.10851639 >>10851632 >poetry

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 16 16:50:02 2018 No.10851645 >>10851632 Literally who?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 16 16:59:33 2018 No.10851691 >>10851618 but artists have made millions

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 16 17:00:35 2018 No.10851699 >>10851626 the bible is prose/prose poetry

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Anonymous Sat Mar 17 04:23:37 2018 No.10854100

How would one even succeed at it? Has anyone ever offered to read their poetry to you? I'm not sure about you, but when that happens to me I break out in a cold sweat and leap out the nearest window unless it is above the fourth story.

It is like novice actors always acting dramatically in front of someone they think could land em a job: both parties leave feeling embarrassed and no better off than before

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 17 04:26:46 2018 No.10854106 >>10851691 do you know a poet who made money selling his poetry?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 17 04:36:10 2018 No.10854123 Bad poets were too shit to be payed. Good poets were too arrogant to want to be payed.

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