There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.
You were destroyed by what you befriended.
they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things
Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.