Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. Use this quote
I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground. Use this quote
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. Use this quote
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. Use this quote
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. Use this quote
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. Use this quote
Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. Use this quote
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. Use this quote
But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it. Use this quote
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. Use this quote
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. Use this quote
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. Use this quote
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. Use this quote
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. Use this quote
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. Use this quote
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment. Use this quote
I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. Use this quote
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. Use this quote
Poetry is a totally different art than film. Use this quote
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. Use this quote
