Rhyme and Meter Quotes

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percussive value of words, and you learn about rhyme and meter. You learn that you can't transform a poem into a song lyric, mostly because the spoken shape of words is different than the sung shape of words. You wouldn't use the vowel 'U' or the vowel sound 'ooo' for a high note for example, its very difficult.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Poets are born, not paid.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.