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I have epiphanies all the time, because I’m always thinking. I’m a thinker. I’m always writing poetry, I’m always coming to conclusions.
Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity – the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That’s the thing I really want to break into!
Poetry is man’s rebellion against being what he is.
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I’ve learned about poetry – the concision, the ability to say something as vividly as possible – but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel’s length, satisfies the reader.
Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.
I’d always loved poetry and I’d always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn’t thought of putting the two together until around that time.
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.