Adjusting Quote by Brian Ferneyhough

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing…

— Shane McCrae

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony,…

— David Ives

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

— Eddie Izzard

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.

— Andrew Bird

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

— Benjamin Clementine

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.

— Richard LaGravenese

Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.

— Kaki King

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

— James Fenton

People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different…

— Alice Oswald

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

— Paul Verlaine