It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.