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" There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer. "

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" What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but you've expressed it so much better.' "

" The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. "

" The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. "

James Gates Percival

" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "

" For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

" I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet. "

" The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which 'he bears to live or dares to die.' It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm. "

" Truth is the number one element in whatever you do with music. "

" Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. "

" I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. "

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

" Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. "

" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "

" I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry. "

" I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment. "

" Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. "

Vladimir Nabokov

" Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it! "

Roberto Benigni

" One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before. "

" By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. "

Lascelles Abercrombie

" Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. "

" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. "

Stephen Spender

" Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. "

William Rose Benet

" The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. "

" When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place. "

" You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond that narrative. "

" A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. "

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

" I don't like to boast, but I have probably skipped more poetry than any other person of my age and weight in this country. "

" I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience. "

" Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. "

" Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person. "