Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers. If your mother tells you stories, she...
Poetry moves heaven and earth.
Poetry is not for profit. Poetry is for Posterity.
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
I am associated with techno epics.
We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that's really inspiring.
I don't ever do those kind of epic, huge, green-screen movies.
Poetry isn't just words that describe reality.Poetry is the fire that burns everything it touches. Poetry is the bible, the word of breath by the soul that ignites a flame no one can put out. Poetry is God.
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyon...
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.
I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.
[from trailer] Kim Pine: That... was *epic.*
I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.
I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!
