Connections Quote by Jamila Woods

“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

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

— Tiffany Foxx

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

— Earl Sweatshirt

Hip-hop started with street poets with great lyrical skills, and that's what hip-hop has always been about for me.

— Gza

I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a…

— Ric Ocasek

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of…

— Lorde

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

— Selima Hill

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

— Mark Knopfler

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with…

— Bob Dylan

“Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music and art,…

— Nicholas Trandahl

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

— Jane Hirshfield