William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens are good examples of brilliant authors who couldn't support themselves with their work alone. (In fact, economically

William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens are good examples of brilliant authors who couldn't support themselves with their work alone. (In fact, economically, almost no poets can support themselves by book sales alone. They tend to go for grants or teaching gigs.) They were better artists than the vast majority of those who put out writing which can support them.