It helped my lyric writing so much studying poetry. I…

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…

— J Tillman

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…

— J. Tillman

I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think…

— Amy Lee

Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band…

— Cornelius Eady

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

— Stephen Sondheim

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they…

— Paul Simon

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

— Craig Finn

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement…

— Thurston Moore

“Poetry ~~ No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient,…

— Henry Daid Thoreau Journal 26 Jan 1840

Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them…

— Fay Weldon

“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one…

— Lauren Willig

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

— Jennifer Stone

At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night without sleeping,…

— Alice Oswald

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

— Nicholas Sparks

I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda