“I think you create a good poem by revising your life … by living the kind of life that enables good poems to come about. It’s much more productive, much more healthful, to feel you are embarked on a writing career in which the way you live your life has something to do with the kind of poems you write. I’m not suggesting being a kind of doomed poet: I’ll drink myself to death in order to write brilliant poems. I don’t believe in that at all.”
* William Stafford
