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Quote by Phyllis Gotlieb
You dont go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do i

You dont go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work. – Phyllis Gotlieb

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