Better way Quote by William Carlos Williams

I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.

— Michael McDonald

Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our…

— Eduardo Galeano

Peculiar as I was, and remain, I was trained to be practical. I'm still amazed at the radical temerity of my friends, you included,…

— Debra Dean

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and…

— Dana Spiotta

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

— Jamila Woods

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

— Anonymous

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright…

— Giacomo Casanova

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

— Maxine Kumin

I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way…

— Gloria Whelan

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

— Margaret Atwood

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

— Shane McCrae