I was probably 16.I played - I tried to play these songs that I had written. And, this was a common theme… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest… — Berton Braley Copy Share Image
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You know, there's black holes and what - could there be wormholes? Could - might there be a multi-verse? These are all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
“My dying tutor told me that he would like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses...… — SonReal Copy Share Image
Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“Dad handed me his empty glass and patted my shoulder. "Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." Then he picked… — Jeri Smith-Ready Copy Share Image
Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Theres a verse thats meant a lot to me ever since I was in my early 20s. 2 Timothy 2:8, Paul told… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine… — J Tillman Copy Share Image
What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse,… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
Mother's Day is also the perfect time for reminding your mother that you recognize what a high and holy calling motherhood is.… — Bible Copy Share Image
Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and… — Jim Capaldi Copy Share Image
We pray youll know Gods love more abundant in your life and know how much youre valued as a Mother and a… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Like a good song, life has verses, the goliards had taught me. Each verse has to be sung. It takes all of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
I always had, you know, in the book of Hebrews, I think it's chapter 11, verse 1, where it says, "Now faith… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to… — Dave Haywood Copy Share Image
![“You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I usually start off with nine or 10 verses and then boil it down to two or three that are half the length of the original verses. I think for me it's about what you leave out [rather] than what you put in. I'm…” quote by J Tillman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b33/j-tillman-40960_distillation_you-know-there-s-an-economy-in-lyric-wri_2068675.jpg)
