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 practicing it.
Source: Foreword, The Dyer's Hand, 1962.
-- W H Auden, (Feb 21 1907-1973), English-US poet, dramatist, editor; He wrote passionately about social problems and post-WW I anxiety; won Pulitzer for verse Age of Anxiety, 1948.