Spoken Word Poem Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.

N.D. Wilson

#3. She gave the word devastated a whole new meaning. I truly believed, at that point, that the word devastated should be reserved for mothers.
I no longer believe that.
The word devastated should be reserved for brothers, too.

Colleen Hoover

#4. I'm kind of goofy, and I need someone who has that, too. I'm looking for the inner freak in a guy.

Marisa Coughlan

#5. Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. There's this kind of war on running - people keep telling you you'll get hurt, get injured, that you need orthotics, that you need go to a special running store before you try it. There's this totally misconceived notion that it's hard to do, and it's not.

Christopher McDougall

#7. If you don't know who your customer is, you don't know what quality is.

Eric Ries

#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. To read a poem
Is to see light where there is darkness
Is to hear silence where there is noise
Is to dance where there is no music
Is to sing where the only instrument is words
And the stirring, impassioned pauses

A.A. Patawaran

#10. Think not to make me afraid, for I fear nothing in the universe but that which I love the best.
I spake of the eyes of the Lord Jesus.
Then

George MacDonald

#11. There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

Clare Boothe Luce

#12. Seek to establish an environment conducive to study in the home.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#13. To bite off your shadow is neither easy nor painless. It demands a single-mindedness that is almost unknown in this day.

Neil Gaiman

#14. I might have never learned to cry if it weren't for my grandfather, Uncle Hob says. I might have never learned to cry. Which means I might never have known really what it is to pray or to laugh down deep in my belly or to tell you aunt Patty how much I love her.

Audrey Couloumbis

#15. An intimate enemy, death, capricious and cruel, ultimately invincible.

Sharon Kay Penman