Century Quote by David Antin

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

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

— Paul McCartney

I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.

— Dawn Richard

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt…

— William Shenstone

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

A song is a poem set to music.

— Tom T. Hall

“One difficulty that people seeking to modernize hymnals and the language of worship inevitably run into is that contemporaries are never the best judges…

— Kathleen Norris

I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard…

— David Longstreth

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began…

— James Fenton

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

— Tinie Tempah

In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an…

— Phil Harris