Blake Quote by Adrian Mitchell

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and…

— Benjamin Clementine

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

— Bruce Dickinson

“The mystic poet William Blake once wrote, “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.”

— Anthony Robbins

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only…

— Jim Jarmusch

“English teaching at school is, unfortunately, obsessed with what a poet thought, as though that were of any interest to anyone. Rather than being…

— Mark Forsyth

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

— Tinie Tempah

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then…

— Richard F. Thomas

“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”

— Dana Gioia

“Or reading poetry. Now there was a job that should exist. To spend one’s days in the company of Blake and Dickinson, Yeats and…

— Anne D. LeClaire

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

— Janine Turner

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip…

— Terry Eagleton