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Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When… — Patti Smith
The essence of poetry is will and passion. — William Hazlitt
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry… — Ezra Pound
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S.… — Marcus Mumford
Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you to… — Dan Beachy-Quick
She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the… — Sara Paretsky
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must… — Boethius
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and music gathering those… — Michael Martin Murphey
But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in… — Annie Proulx
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 that… — Ben Gibbard
As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to… — Rosanne Cash
I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from… — Judy Collins
I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something.… — Unknown Author
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some… — Aristotle
A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the… — D. H. Lawrence
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. — David Hare
I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it… — Carlos Celdran
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world.… — Unknown Author
The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated — Frederick Sommer
Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell — Kenneth Slessor
The best thing about conceptual poetry is that it doesn’t need to be read. You don’t have to read it. As a matter of fact,… — Kenneth Goldsmith
Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax,… — Sven Birkerts
Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it? — Reginald Shepherd
People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading [poems],… — Gwee Li Sui

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