Language Quote by Stephen Sondheim

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

— Joshua Homme

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and…

— Kelela

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

Songs are all poetry, and they don't make any sense.

— A. A. Gill

For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams

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

I'd always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium because they're subjugated under the music. If you were to regard…

— David Longstreth

Most songwriting like poetry takes a careful selection of words. Sometimes you're just channeling something and a selection of words come out that you…

— Vance Joy

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

— James Tate

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

Our scribblings are usually not lyrics but whirrings, without colour or resonance, like the tone of an engine-wheel. I believe that the cause lies…

— Rosa Luxemburg