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I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

"Fooling with Words". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 28, 1999.

Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.213

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.

"Leonard Cohen Corrects Himself: 'I Intend to Stick Around Until 120'". Leonard Cohen's remarks during a listening session for his new album at the Canadian consulate in Los Angeles, www.billboard.com. October 13, 2016.

We don't pay taxes. The little people pay taxes.

"Farewell to the woman they called the Queen of Mean: Leona Helmsley dies at 87" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2007.