- Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
- Bette Midler on Poetry
- Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
- David Lee Roth on Poetry
- Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
- Ajay Naidu on Poetry
- Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
- Macklemore on Poetry
- Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from yoga.
- J. Courtney Sullivan on Poetry
- Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun on Poetry
- Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
- Georges Braque on Poetry
- Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
- James Martineau on Poetry
- Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.
- Salvatore Quasimodo on Poetry
- Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
- Victor Hugo on Poetry
- Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
- George William Curtis on Poetry
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