Belching Quote by Frank Sinatra, Jr

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

— Alfred de Vigny

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

— Peter Steele

Rap is the pulsation given by some, usually an electronic rhythm section, without any tonality, and you have someone reading high-school poetry.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.

— Kim Hyesoon

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

— Bette Midler

Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

— Tom Robbins

“It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father, your ancestors…

— Paul Beatty

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk,…

— Edward Hirsch

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

— David Lee Roth

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

— Earl Sweatshirt

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.

— Emmanuel Jal

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing…

— Theo Dorgan