Drinking Quote by Dylan Moran

'I Drink' took me two years to write.

— Mary Gauthier

For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but…

— Franz Wright

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

— Eileen Myles

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

— Margaret Atwood

I wasted so many years in my youth.

— Rob Liefeld

I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

— John Cooper Clarke

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

— Frederick Busch

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

— Peter Blegvad

You know you're an alcoholic when you misplace thingslike a decade.

— Paul Williams

It is true that I didn't write any poetry between 1995 and 2011. The reason for this was probably because I had stayed away…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

— Philip Levine