Challenges Quote by Paul Gilbert

“The birds swoop nearer. They are gulls. Why, then, We must be close to the ocean! Indeed, The sounds of your music come clearly,…

— Landis Everson

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

— William Shenstone

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

— Countee Cullen

“Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

— Mike Gordon

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.

— Terrence Howard

“First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

“I woke up wanting to read a poem by that name, and I found one with a lifeguard’s chair, a broken shell, gulls watching…

— Michael Broder

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

— Tom Waits

“The Universal Turtle Verse I spend the day nibbling rent-free Underneath the Giving Tree. Me, Rirty Dat and Snerry Jake Show Runny Babbit how…

— J. Patrick Lewis

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

“For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth: the time of the singing of…

— Toni Morrison