“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.”– Plutarch Related Quotes “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”– Leonard Cohen “Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise – nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.”– Marilyn Hacker “I’m fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there’s a lot of poetry in it. There’s a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you’d better listen to it pretty carefully, ’cause it’s important.”– John F. Kerry