“Writers write. Everyone else makes excuses.”— Jack M. Bickham Related Quotes “And too soon Marred are those so early Made.”— William Shakespeare “An oligarchy does not require a good and moral citizenry but a Constitutional Republic does. If we lose our moral compass, we lose our country.”— R. A. Delmonico “Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.”— Octavio Paz