I have certain viewpoints that come out in certain shayaris.
Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.
Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but there wasn't a real story behind them.
Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
Green Eggs and Ham' is fire.
I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.
'Oh, the Places You'll Go!,' by Dr. Seuss, is still one of my favorite books ever.
As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.
Alice Walker's words have such rhythm and scream music.
