Careful Quote by Vance Joy

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

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

I don't think I ever wrote a song. I can write a lot of jokes, but when I try to write lyrics they're the…

— Demetri Martin

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

— Janine Turner

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches,…

— Ian Anderson

There's a standard of songwriting that, when you start immersing yourself in those types of songs, it raises your own bar as a songwriter.…

— Sinead O'Connor

The whole point of writing poetry or fiction is that you get to agonize over whatever it is you want to say, and you…

— Nick Laird

The trick to songwriting is writing in a poetic enough way that other people can identify with it.

— Lights

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people.…

— Patti Smith

Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others.…

— Edward Hirsch

I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes…

— PJ Harvey

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations…

— Northrop Frye