Answers Quote by Fernando Pessoa

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

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Dorothy Parker

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Brendan Behan

“Becoming an ex-alcoholic, however, is not easy. Drink may be futile and ultimately degrading, but only the fortunate drinker discovers this. And it is…

— George Sheehan

You can't write drunk.

— Derek Walcott

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

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

— Hayes Carll

“If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“One must be for ever drunken: that is the sole question of importance. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time that…

— Chalres Santore

I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

— Dannie Abse

“Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your…

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Eugene O'Neill