More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. – Saul Williams
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. Its not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. – Saul Williams
My fathers a preacher, my mothers a teacher, thus I rhyme. – Saul Williams
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. – Saul Williams
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things. – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919