Certain Quote by Bo Burnham

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there…

— Kate Clinton

To me, comedy and music are not even really separate entities.

— Kyle Gass

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy…

— Rachel Bloom

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

— John Prine

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

— Robert Schumann

I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that…

— Kevin Young

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.

— Guy Gavriel Kay

My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.

— Robert Schumann