Chinese Quote by Stephin Merritt

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

— Tom Verlaine

“It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

— Joshua Homme

There's rappers out there that don't even know how to rhyme. They take someone else's words and go with it. To each his own.

— Big Daddy Kane

Sometimes you cant rhyme in everything you say cause you still gotta make sense.

— $Teady

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

— Robert Morgan

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

— Dorothy Fields

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

— Stephen Sondheim

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a…

— Ron Padgett

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

— Voltaire

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