Adrian Mitchell Quotes

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

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

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 remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

First and foremost, I'm an oral storyteller - I'll make a poetic choice over a grammatical choice every single time.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

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

The crown of literature is poetry.

I'm pretty much all for poetry in public places - poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

I've always been a writer. I've always done writing or spoken-word, hip-hop stuff with my friends.