A rapper is a poet on steroids. Poets slow down the world, causing others to see it; rappers take on the commercial pace of the world.
Poetry Quotes
Poetry must be as new as foam and old as rock.
What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colors which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.
Plain hoss-sense in poetry-writen’Would jes’knock sentiment a-kitin’! Mostly poets is all star-gazin’And moanin’and groanin’and paraphrasin’! A Wholly Unscholastic Opinion,
Tis a fine thing for children to learn to make verse; but when they come to be men, they must speak like other men, or else they will be laughed at.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them into shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.
