I don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.
I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.
I love my mother. I do love her.
I love what I do, I love my job.
