“I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.”– Saul Williams Related Quotes “I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.”– Jacques Derrida “A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”– Paul Valery “Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it’s the home of the extraordinary, the only home.”– Philip Levine