Drunk Quote by Dannie Abse

I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few…

— Charles Bukowski

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's -…

— Charles Bukowski

They say a drunken mind speaks a sober heart, so drink up and tell me how you really feel.

— Anonymous

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned…

— Fernando Pessoa

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean…

— Matthew Zapruder

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

— Eugene O'Neill

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

— Natasha Trethewey

I'm really into poetry.

— Grace Potter

“Boy, you ain't a poet ... just a drunk with a pen.”

— Hayes Carll

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

— Dudley Moore