#poe

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#doing #getting #got #happens #having

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music. ↗

— Carly Simon

#i #local #lyrics #melody #music

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#life #men #other #poet #speaks

Poetry is the deification of reality. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#reality

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. ↗

— Peter Steele

#definition #executed #people #poetry #rap

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#been #british #come #countryside #decades

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#cover #days #following #footsteps #found

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. ↗

— Huston Smith

#celtic #could #language #onto #opens

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#i #kids #poetry #quiet #those

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #desire #desires #dreams #expectations