Man People I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for. - William Wycherley
Love Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. - William Wycherley
Women Love Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. - William Wycherley
Beauty Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. - William Wycherley
Poets Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. - Wislawa Szymborska
Poets The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. - Salvatore Quasimodo
Poets Writers Worth Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together. - Roger McGough
Poets Words Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. - Eli Khamarov
Poets Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. - Ernest Hemingway