#poetry

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

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to. ↗

— Jewel Kilcher

#i #i think #just #kids #poetry

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

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

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