“Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.”
“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”
“The poet is a pure spring from which all thirsty souls may drink.”
“Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.”
“This was why trusting boys was just like drinking and driving. Sure, some people too the risk. One or two beers never feels dangerous at the time. And now everyone who drives and drinks gets into an accident.”
“You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.”