I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I loved my friend.
I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.
Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry
To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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.
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.
I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.
Racism is old, but Peele found a poetic new way of talking about it. He gave us language we didn't know we lacked.
I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.
Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.
I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.
If a poet would influence politics he must join a party, and then he is lost as a poet: goodbye to his free spirit and his open mind.
