Believe Quote by Marilyn Nelson

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock…

— Jim Carroll

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in…

— James Arthur

“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them”

— George Bernard Shaw

I believe that poetry is a picture painted in colourful words. If your poem doesn't move you, then don't expect it to shake the…

— Thabang Tshabalala

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness,…

— Robert Frost

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

— Patricia Hampl

There is no one who can stop you; you find a mic, a crowd, a set of ears, and nowadays, a camera and YouTube,…

— Bao Phi

All poetry is misrepresentation.

— Jeremy Bentham