Comments on: What Does Success Mean to a Poet? What Does it Mean to You? https://webbish6.com/what-does-success-mean-to-a-poet-what-does-it-mean-to-you-2/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kitchen worktops guy https://webbish6.com/what-does-success-mean-to-a-poet-what-does-it-mean-to-you-2/#comment-2801 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:18:38 +0000 http://webbish6.com/what-does-success-mean-to-a-poet-what-does-it-mean-to-you-2/#comment-2801 I feel that “success” means being happy with what you are doing – whether that is writing anything at all to publishing five books. We all have different standards for ourselves and “success” is a really subjective term.

]]> By: Anonymous https://webbish6.com/what-does-success-mean-to-a-poet-what-does-it-mean-to-you-2/#comment-2800 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:18:15 +0000 http://webbish6.com/what-does-success-mean-to-a-poet-what-does-it-mean-to-you-2/#comment-2800 I feel that “success” means being happy with what you are doing – whether that is writing anything at all to publishing five books. We all have different standards for ourselves and “success” is a really subjective term.

]]> By: Radish King https://webbish6.com/what-does-success-mean-to-a-poet-what-does-it-mean-to-you-2/#comment-2799 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:08:38 +0000 http://webbish6.com/what-does-success-mean-to-a-poet-what-does-it-mean-to-you-2/#comment-2799 You’re successful if you feel successful and that feeling is fleet.

Unfortunately we live in a society that does not value its artists. Poetry is not a money game not even for those at the top.

We must set our own mileposts as writers nu? Mine is to keep at it to not give up.

Good post Jeannine.
xo

]]> By: Cleveland Wall https://webbish6.com/what-does-success-mean-to-a-poet-what-does-it-mean-to-you-2/#comment-2798 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:22:24 +0000 http://webbish6.com/what-does-success-mean-to-a-poet-what-does-it-mean-to-you-2/#comment-2798 I would consider enduring influence to be the mark of success, and of course you don’t get to find out during your lifetime whether you’ve achieved that or not. Even to influence a very thin line of poets is success, if the line is long. Or maybe even if it isn’t. OK, so short answer: I don’t know.

]]> By: Tom C. Hunley https://webbish6.com/what-does-success-mean-to-a-poet-what-does-it-mean-to-you-2/#comment-2797 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:47:23 +0000 http://webbish6.com/what-does-success-mean-to-a-poet-what-does-it-mean-to-you-2/#comment-2797 A lot of the time I feel like a failure as a writer, like I should have accomplished so much more by now. I especially feel like that when I don’t get the grant or win the contest or get into the journal or anthology. But I try to remember myself as a teenager, falling in love with poetry and determining to make it one of the driving forces in my life. Twenty-five years later, poetry is still a big part of my daily life, and I’ve seen many brilliant, talented people give up in frustration or lose interest. By that measure, at least, I can consider myself a success.

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