#poet

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#comes #me #poetry #recitation #through

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#defined #instruments #jazz #more #much

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

— Bette Midler

#me #music #poetry #rap #set

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. ↗

— Henry Miller

#difference #doctrine #evil #example #forces

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#certainly #doctors #engineers #lawyers #low

Poets are born, not paid. ↗

— Addison Mizner

#paid #poets

We left you there, lonely, Beauty your power, Wisdom your watchman, To hold the clay tower. from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree ↗

— Vachel Lindsay

#beauty

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#far #film #poetry #superior #theater

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. ↗