Quote by Saul Williams
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of histor

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

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Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party it is also there to elevate consciousness. – Saul Williams

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I think its a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesnt seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and thats ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. – Saul Williams

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Why shouldnt rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess its this old idea of containment – that rappers, because theyre black, cant and shouldnt aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence. – Saul Williams

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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. – Walter Mosley

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[P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. – Sigmund Freud, quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations by Alan L. Mackay

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. – Alfred Edward Housman

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Well, I like to write poetry. Im a published poet. – Misha Collins

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