Beautiful Quote by James Fenton

Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they…

— Paul Simon

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

— Joseph Brodsky

Once a poet always a poet, and even though I haven't written poems for a long time, I can nonetheless say that everything I've…

— Jack Driscoll

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

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

My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not…

— Ernesto Cardenal

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

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

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

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is…

— Thomas Lynch

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

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

— Stephen Sondheim