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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Stephen Sondheim
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.


Federico Fellini
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Lucille Clifton
Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.
Andrei Codrescu
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
Idina Menzel
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.


Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.


Keith Stanfield
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
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We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.
Art Garfunkel
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.
James Laughlin
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.


Kara Swisher
I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
Gary Jennings
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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.


Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet.


Mohammed Morsi
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There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.


Richard Engel
'Noah' is an insult to Bible-believing Christians, an insult to the character of Noah and, most of all, an insult to the God of the Bible. As a result, I believe Hollywood will have a much harder time in marketing future biblically-themed movies to Christians.
Ken Ham
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I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.


Josephine Baker
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Science is not addressed to poets.


George Henry Lewes
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Every day, women move mountains. It is an insult to have an international women's day.


Waris Dirie
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