I am an amateur poet, working for the love of the work and to my own satisfaction, which are two of the conditions of “self-employment,” as I understand it.
I am an amateur poet, working for the love of the work and to my own satisfaction, which are two of the conditions of “self-employment,” as I understand it. I belong to no school of poetry, but rather to my love for certain poems by other poets, some of whom, I am thankful to say, are my contemporaries.
-Wendell Berry