Corey Hawkins Quotes

Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

I like poems that are little games.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

I like poems that are complex.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.

I really like when the lyrics in the music have an interesting relationship between one another - where they contrast each other.

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.