Believe Quote by M. Jayachandran

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

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

— William Shenstone

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes…

— PJ Harvey

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 halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

— Mark Knopfler

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

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

— Tinie Tempah

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't…

— Edward Hirsch

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's…

— Jane Campion