Poetry Quote by Ice-T

“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”

— Dana Gioia

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

“Can the light dying behind my eyes be recorded in rhyme schemes? I meet this page in the morning beating back death trying to…

— Sapphire

“What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem?”

— Francesca Lia Block

“Poetry has a mysterious way of illustrating the landscapes of life. One can't help but love its audacity to record the journey.”

— L.v. Jones

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.

— Del Shannon

My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg.

— Patti Smith

In the late 60s and early 70s, I did get interested in voices, and in narration and embodying the voice, making the poem sound…

— Robert Morgan

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

“Life does rhyme: it rhymes all the time.”

— Martin Amis

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler