Able Quote by Paul Simon

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

— Janine Turner

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

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry…

— Jordin Sparks

I write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was younger, write for my school newspapers. Also reading is…

— Cakes da killa

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

— Stephen Sondheim

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began…

— James Fenton

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists…

— Andrew VanWyngarden

I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.

— Paloma Elsesser

I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always…

— Blake Jenner

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died,…

— Caroline Kennedy

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

— Tom Araya

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of…

— Lorde