#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

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#first #important #modern #more #mostly

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

— Isaac Rosenberg

#me #nobody #poetry #put #read

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#bring #find #poetry #some #unless

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper. ↗

— Erica Jong

#cheaper #declining #i #i think #life

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

— June Jordan

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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. ↗

— June Jordan

#among #becomes #between #dialogue #each

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

#expressions #exquisite #poetry