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He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. — Henry David Thoreau

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. — Bernie Taupin

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music. — Roddy Woomble

She's like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page. — Colleen Hoover

Have a Werebeast free day!" - Lucy Lowell — Bonita Gutierrez

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together. — P. J. Soles

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them. — Criss Jami

If you can sing it, you can play it. — Jackie McLean

My heart is strong,
I will not fail,
I won't be wronged,
I will prevail. — Alexandra Lanc

As long as music survives, poetry will never die. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Stretched and skewed
Tap of the 8-ball and the cue
Scratches fall through
They are the scars of you — Criss Jami

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. — Knut Hamsun

I went to prison, I paid my bill. — George Michael

Life is as long as you live it. — Lashauna D. Hinton

Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls' pants - use it to get into their heads. — Scroobius Pip

My goal is to have that be a haven for families. — J. Cole

I heard mauma say, I don't spec to get free. The only way I'm getting free is for you to get free. — Sue Monk Kidd

You own me with whispers like poetry.
Your mouth is a melody I memorize. — The Civil Wars

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page. — Taylor Swift

For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation's poetry. — John McWhorter

Walk and love
We're walking in love
For the walk of love — Criss Jami

If I knew what to do
I'd do more than write a song for you — Criss Jami

In times of adversity, you will know those who truly love you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stand. — Guy Clark

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. — Leonard Cohen

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. — Criss Jami

We are silent haters
communicating through
memories and tears
We are silent lovers
communicating through
poetry and lyrics — Shannon Lynette

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song. — Santosh Kalwar

Chance is your god
Though you're falling free you will land hard — Criss Jami

A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark — Criss Jami

There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer. — Yanni

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme. — Morrissey

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do. — Stephen Sondheim