"I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children’s stories." ― Bobby McFerrin Topic(s): Poetry More From Bobby McFerrin "If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they’re going to get up and tell their boss off… then I’ll be successful." "Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints." More In Poetry "If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you’ll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry."― Jim Jarmusch "Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind."― Maxwell Bodenheim "Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground."― Diane Wakoski