Age Quote by Heinrich Heine

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

— Tinie Tempah

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

Every song with lyrics is lyrical.

— Vince Staples

If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

— Rumi

I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony…

— Edward Hirsch

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those…

— Marilyn Hacker

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

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur…

— Michael Dirda

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

The nightingale is sovereign of song.

— Edmund Spenser

I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come.

— Tom Paulin