Poet & Spoken Word
In 1989 "Tony Haynes A.K.A. The Private i" was signed to Epic Records as a poet/spoken word artist. Through Epic his songs "Dead Presidents" and "I'll Still Respect You In The Morning" were released.
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Famous quotes containing the words poet, spoken and/or word:
“Test of the poet is knowledge of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
Never was poet, of late or of yore,
Who was not tremulous with love-lore.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as he is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of: and then comfort thyself for thy heaviness. For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 38:17-18.
“The higher a man stands, the more the word “vulgar” becomes unintelligible to him.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)