A Quote by Edward Hirsch
Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.
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I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess. Vocation does not come from a voice ?out there? calling me to be something I am not. It comes from a voice ?in here? calling me to be the person I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood given me at birth by God.
Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation.'
Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us. Are you pursuing a shadow career?
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The writing of poetry is one thing. It's an obsession, the scratching of a divine itch, and has nothing to do with money. You can, however, make a career out of being a poet by teaching, traveling around, and giving lectures. It's a thin living at best.
My desperation to be on the stage and perform was like a vocation, a religious calling.
I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
I've been blessed, I think, to have tremendous joy in my life in pursuing my vocation, my calling.
Everyone has a vocation by which he earns his living, but he also has a vocation in an older sense of the word-the vocation to use his powers and live his life well.
Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
I still don't know if I'm good enough or if it's a calling or a vocation or something, but the talent part is out. My desire to do it is undoubted. I just love doing this.
I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.
In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.
In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a vocation.
Men seldom persevere in a vocation unless they believe or can convince themselves that it is fundamentally more important than anyother calling. Women are the same with their lovers.
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