"It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap."

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"It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap."

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"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."

William Shenstone, English Poet

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"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does."

Allen Ginsberg, American Poet

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"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."

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"The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times."

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"I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that."

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"Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear."

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"You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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"We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene."

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"As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked."

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"I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death."

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