Believe Quote by David Berman

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass…

— Nikki Giovanni

I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.

— Martin Gore

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

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.…

— Patti Smith

I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're…

— Michael Gira

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual…

— Jonathan Lethem

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

— A. A. Gill

I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in…

— James Arthur

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

— Nathalie Sarraute