Quotes About Slam Poetry

#1. Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life with candor, wit, and an unsparing eye for the perfect detail. Brilliant.

Janice Erlbaum

#2. Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.

Jake Holmes

#3. And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

Amber Tamblyn

#4. Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with poetry as Elvis Presley had to do with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk".

Charles Simic

#5. Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand.

Jason E. Hodges

#6. We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.

Robbie Q. Telfer

#7. Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. ... All those things.

R.M. Engelhardt

#8. I became part of his ocean, an ocean of poetry that swayed and moved anybody near, that plunged up against every chair and table and tugged and tried our souls. His poem left me dry-mouthed and hungry, diminished only slightly from the bitterness of the beer I continually forgot was in my hand.

Annie Fisher

#9. The first spoken word poem I ever wrote was when I was 14 and I wrote it because I was accidentally signed up for a teen poetry slam. Because I loved poetry I said that I'd try it out.

Sarah Kay

#10. I want to feel like honey and trombones. I want to feel like honey and trombones

Anis Mojgani

#11. Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

Theo De Raadt

#12. I'm scared," she said.
"Of me?" His voice was full of sorrow.
"Of everything.

E. Mellyberry

#13. I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.

Joe Jonas

#14. Two of them have asked in the most circumspect and quiet ways possible if there was a chance that you prefer women."
I let out a sound that wasn't quite a laugh. "Of course, because the only way I could possibly like men is if I bowed down at their feet?

Kiera Cass

#15. You have to be saved to get into heaven ... you only have to be you to get into hell.

Marilyn Manson

#16. How well you cross a storm of life determines your testimony about it

Sunday Adelaja