Corny Quote by Earl Sweatshirt

“Recently, a judge of the prestigious 2014 British Forward Prize for Poetry was moved to observe that “there is an awful lot of very…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

— Mark Knopfler

When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks…

— Jamila Woods

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

— Bette Midler

I think we need to sort of broaden our definition of poetry, which maybe it's a good thing that they just gave this Nobel…

— Jim Jarmusch

I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like it. It's…

— Quentin Tarantino

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and…

— Sandra Cisneros

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

I always did poetry, and [rap music is] pretty much hip-hop melody with poems.

— Tiffany Foxx

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes…

— PJ Harvey