Law Quote by Robert Schumann

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

— Robert Schumann

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.

— Gulzar

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

I've written poetry most of my life.

— Julia Michaels

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

— Benjamin Clementine

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

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

— Countee Cullen

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

— Masiela Lusha

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

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