Data Quote by Campbell McGrath

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

— Trevor McDonald

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

If I knew how to say it directly, I would not need to write poetry. I would just talk to people and be happy.

— Selima Hill

Sometimes I start with lyrics - rarely - but sometimes I might have an idea for some lyrics that I wanna say. I write…

— Leon Bridges

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have…

— Boris Pasternak

I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say…

— Ben Gibbard

“YOU SAY "POET" LIKE THAT MEANS SOMETHING.”

— Amy King

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

— Tom Paulin