You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.
Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it’s so pure and powerful.
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.
There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn’t want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
Music pulled me like a gravitational force. I entered college as a physics major but left as a Bachelor of Music, a degree with the same practical application as, say, one in the History of Chinese Poetry.
I’m ashamed to admit that I very seldom read poetry, even though many of my friends are poets.
That is what I did with Jack, and that’s why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
I don’t think you can read poetry while you’re watching television very well.
Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it’s something more.
The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found – indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
Poetry stands or falls by its music.
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
I call myself a grasshopper. I paint, I write poetry, and I’m in a band. When it comes to movies and TV, I like to work in everything and with everyone. I wanna do it all, beyond even the screen.
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
