Clear Quote by Joanna Newsom

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

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

— William Shenstone

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

— Lee Ranaldo

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

— Saul Williams

“What does it all mean, poet? Well, Your brains beat into rhythm, you tell What we felt only; you expressed You hold things beautiful…

— Robert Browning

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn

Some people just have a love for words and thinking about words that rhyme.

— Olafur Darri Olafsson

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

— Tinie Tempah

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

When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!

— John Cooper Clarke

“I wouldn't be surprised if poetry - poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring…

— David Byrne