Muhammad Iqbal Quotes

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

I am a poet, and I speak poetically.

For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one thousand pages of prose. Now, I want the easiness of poetry. The brevity of the poem.

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

I like to write poetry.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.

I started writing poetry when I was in the fifth grade, just rhyming in class.

I'm really into poetry.