#poet

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. ↗

— June Jordan

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

— Bernie Taupin

#insult #lyrics #poetry #poets #real

I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#better #carefully #cause #energy #fascinated

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second. ↗

— Ken Kesey

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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets. ↗

— George Murray

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A lot happens by accident in poetry. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#happens #lot #poetry

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,' ↗

— Jewel

#before #book #doing #got #had