Contracts Quote by Nikki Giovanni

A poet's first contract is with truth.

— Vanna Bonta

My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.

— Robert Schumann

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

— Robert Schumann

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer…

— Jean Giraudoux

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the…

— Linda Hogan

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

— Masiela Lusha

Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny

— Mikhail Dudan

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

— Zephyr Teachout

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

— Clarence Darrow

Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

— Delia Sherman

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman