Balloons Quote by Bob Dylan

“Sing me no songs of daylight, For the sun is the enemy of lovers Sing instead of shadows and darkness, And memories of midnight”

— Sidney Sheldon

Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as…

— M. Jayachandran

If I had something to say about my lyrics, I would say they were about different subjects concerning the darkness and the night.

— Varg Vikernes

I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the…

— Mary Ruefle

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

— David Antin

More often than not, changes had to be made in order for a song to make sense, and by the end of it, it…

— James Vincent McMorrow

[Bob] Dylan's broken-heart songs are so much better. Like "Simple Twist of Fate".

— Bob Dylan

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

— A. A. Gill

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

— Jeff Tweedy

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable…

— Edward Hirsch

Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

— Bob Dylan

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for…

— Nick Hornby