#poet

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#along #art #dance #english #eventually

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#become #fonder #i #maybe #poetry

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#dangerous #enters #first #her #into

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#beatniks #like #music #poetry #rap

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#learn #poetry #science #those #who

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#poetry #sunday #truth

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#every #i #into #me #myself

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#experience

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#day #hunger #intolerable #invented #poetry

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#free speech #our #penalty #period #poems