All time Quote by Benjamin Clementine

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

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

— Adrian Mitchell

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

— Phoebe Snow

“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

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

— Cornel West

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

— Bruce Dickinson

I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians:…

— Bill Bruford

I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.

— Mary Timony

“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

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

— Cecil Taylor

I was born not to be a poet myself, but to be the instrument of the very poet that has always been inside me.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

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…

— Bruce Cockburn