Distaste Quote by David Antin

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry…

— Herbert Read

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

Song is the heroics of speech.

— Thomas Carlyle

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest…

— Peggy Noonan

Big, evocative words get thrown around, and people can sing along to passionately as if the lyrics just materialized out of the ether, largely…

— Dan Bejar

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

People assume that the meaning of a song is vested in the lyrics. To me, that has never been the case. There are very…

— Brian Eno

Verse, singing, and speech have a common origin.

— Anonymous

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry. I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper,…

— Sarah Kay

There are many songs that have become popular and people sing along with it without knowing the meaning of its lyrics.

— Gulzar

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

— David Antin

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

— Tinie Tempah