Lil Dicky Quotes

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

I always knew that I was tremendously creative. I recited love poems, I wrote stories and I got excellent grades in every subject, except for maths.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

When I was in fourth grade, I started writing a lot of poetry, and eventually, someone in the church was like, 'You should switch this over to rapping.' I went home and did that - started putting my poems over rap.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

Creativity is contagious. And so is banality. Criticism is an art in itself. Don't let the dullness around destroy the creativity within. T.S. Eliot said, "honest criticism and sensitive appreciation is directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry." Good to remember.

If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.

[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.

Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.

Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.

You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.

For Poesy alone can tell her dreams, With the fine spell of words alone can save Imagination from the sable charm And dumb enchantment. Who alive can say, ‘Thou art no Poet may’st not tell thy dreams?’ Since every man whose soul is not a clod Hath visions, and would speak, if he had loved And been well nurtured in his mother tongue. Whether the dream now purpos’d to rehearse Be poet’s or fanatic’s will be known When this warm scribe my hand is in the grave.

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

The engineers of the future will be poets.