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I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry. -- Lana Del Rey
I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap. -- Keith Stanfield
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. -- Macklemore
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. -- Archie Shepp
I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting. -- Ric Ocasek
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
From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound. -- Nicholson Baker
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters -- Julio Cortazar
If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat. -- Brad Leithauser
Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for. -- Carl Sandburg
I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry. -- Simon Rich

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