Famous Quotes About poetry

Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.