This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous line from Shakespeare's "Henry IV Part I" . It's a quote from Henry IV, Part I: "I am a poet, a dramatist, a singer, a poet's friend, and I am a man of the world." Shakespeare was writing about the world when he wrote this line, and it's one of the most famous lines in the English language. It was written by a poet named William Shakespeare, who wrote the play "Henry V" , which is a play about a young man named Henry V. Henry V's friends include a number of important people in the play's plot, including the poet