Lessons learned Quote by Nicole Lyons

“All erect dicks are bent. Or, if not all, then at least enough of them to be eulogized in a poem.”

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“Hard cocks, with glorious exceptions, were hardly ever literary.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.”

— Arthur Gordon

“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.”

— Thomas Hardy

“it's so easy to be a poet and so hard to be a man.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.”

— Shira Wolosky

“As with life’s finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed.”

— Branch Isole

“Many are poets, but without the name; For what is Poesy but to create From overfeeling Good or Ill; and aim At an external…

— George Gordon Byron

“it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be the choice…

— Mary Karr

“Sex and love are what make the world go round. It's the heart of poetry and music.”

— Vonnie Davis

“This is how we were meant for each other. How we make our living. The lives of frustrated poets and imposters. This, too, how…

— Chang-rae Lee

“for what is life, a good life, but the accumulation of small pleasures?”

— J. Maarten Troost