Urban Poetry Quotes

#1. My fruit grows on other people's trees.

Bob Buford

#2. I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.

Kailash Kher

#3. My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

Natalia Vodianova

#4. And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there ... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound

#5. I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

Oscar Hijuelos

#6. Pain is an old friend who left briefly and has now returned. Starvation without sustenance, I had grown acquaint. Satiety was a stranger who invaded my deepest being, and now I cannot live without.

Melanie A. Gabbard

#7. How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?

Miranda Kenneally

#8. Underneath his steal and wool and boiled leather, Jaime Lannister was a tapestry of cuts and scabs and bruises.

George R R Martin

#9. But the way to wealth through the quill seems long ...

Elizabeth Charles

#10. I am trying to send directions out and keep control of state government for the final month.

Scott McCallum

#11. So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your breath, you know that kind of thing - it was pure poetry and you know I treasure that.

DJ Spooky

#12. I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall ... and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades.

Brandi L. Bates

#13. Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with.

David Gilmour

#14. When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose.

Ross Perot

#15. The rhyme pad was a spell book - it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#16. I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.

Warren Cuccurullo

#17. Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda's voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and even Alice Sebold, yet it's indelibly her own.

Dennis Lehane

#18. Work on your character, let life fall into place.

Sonia Rumzi

#19. When the Brooklyn rain comes down
hopefully it will be to fuckin' wake you up

Julian Gallo

#20. Scott Medlock is the 'Top Gun' of sports artists. He truly is the best of the best.

Jim Hill

#21. I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

Ellie Kemper

#22. Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

Horatio Nelson

#23. People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

Patrick Dixon