All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Ive written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasnt until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song. – Jordin Sparks
As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend ones language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence. – W. H. Auden
Well, Ive been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that theres no hope. – Thom Yorke