Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. Nikki Giovanni
It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. Tom Hanks
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. Thomas Mann
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens. Russell Simmons
If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable. Robert Morgan
Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose. Aung San Suu Kyi
Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. Daisaku Ikeda
When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. Ezra Pound
Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas. Caroline Kennedy
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. Caroline Kennedy
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas. Caroline Kennedy
My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence. Michael Sheen
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song. Jordin Sparks
Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. Bette Midler
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. Lascelles Abercrombie
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. Wallace Stevens