It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. Use this quote
I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since. Use this quote
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet. Use this quote
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. Use this quote
I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. Use this quote
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. Use this quote
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. Use this quote
My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen. Use this quote
Always be a poet, even in prose. Use this quote
I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. Use this quote
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. Use this quote
I like poems that are little games. Use this quote
I write poetry in order to live more fully. Use this quote
I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time. Use this quote
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. Use this quote
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Use this quote
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. Use this quote
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity. Use this quote
I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty. Use this quote
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. Use this quote
