Common Quote by Dan Bejar

I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.

— Harlan Howard

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

— Robert Frost

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

There are phrases that are totally cliche that we, as songwriters, owe it to ourselves to not use again.

— Brad Paisley

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

— Shane McCrae

When I am seriously composing, sometimes a phrase will come into my head, a catch phrase. When I was writing pop songs for a…

— Tom Glazer

I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap…

— Jim Carroll

One should use common words to say uncommon things

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I call what I do 'modal structures.' Sometimes they're songs, sometimes they're longer, sometimes they're this mantra - I've never called myself a spoken…

— Anne Waldman

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes…

— PJ Harvey

I take the typical words, or I pick a two-word, three-word pattern. One of the things I'm known for is I was one of…

— Bun B

I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.

— Jamila Woods