“Envy won't make you a better poet.”
“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
“If anyone ever tells you that violence won't make you feel better, they're lying.”
“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
“Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better”
“ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you. You won't care. (sigh)”