"Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos." ― David Lee Roth Topic(s): Poetry More From David Lee Roth "I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass." "You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He’s just famous for his sound." "Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it." More In Poetry "Poetry is life distilled."― Gwendolyn Brooks "Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn’t the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it’s the working poor. They don’t look any different, they don’t behave any differently, they’re not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that’s it."― Mario Batali "Well – I started writing – probably in the early 60s and by say ’65-’66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published – certainly in the 20 years prior to that."― Robert Adamson