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The moon is my fear.
The sun is my heart afire.
The stars, my love songs. — Richelle E. Goodrich

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. — Philip Levine

Did you tell people that songs weren't the same as a warm body, a soft mouth? — Warsan Shire

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

But then you left exactly how all the sad songs said you would — Andrew Faulkner

Songs live longer than kingdoms. — Atticus Poetry

Almost no one reads poems, almost everyone listens to songs. And if songs were, nowadays, a way to get people to poetry and poetry to people? — Luigina Sgarro

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

Less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp: his possession is his gift of glee which God gave him. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Now you may hear songs of kindness
From every singing bird
And from every dancing heart
Let kindness be the part of your being — Debasish Mridha

I live there...
Far above the song-filled clouds,
where the dewdrops touch my skin so bare
I live there. — Sanober Khan

Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection - / We shall get ourselves rather disliked. — Ezra Pound

Start with your heart, and only good can follow! — Ocean

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

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together. — Brenda Sutton Rose

Latin is a dead tongue
And Romans made songs!
Then no one disagree:
It delighted them in theory
Now it's "the Latin" in me. — Ana Claudia Antunes

Then I found my head one day when I wasn't even trying. — Cat Stevens

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular. — Amy Winehouse

Whose starboard eye
Saw chariot 'swing low'? — James Weldon Johnson

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think. — J. D. Souther

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand.
They are only meant to terrify & comfort. — John Berryman

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 wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting. — Gabrielle Aplin

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the dozens.' — Quincy Jones

Springwater grow so thick it gonna clot and the pleasing ladies cease. I figure, yup, you is bad powers. — John Berryman

She was the kind of girl that inspired love songs and erotic poetry. — A.J. Johnson-Clark

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar. — Steve Earle

You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs. — Ruben Dario

When I was hungry
I fed almost daily
on the words of her songs. — Jaroslav Seifert

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words. — Kurt Cobain

Someday you will name me,
then gently place those burning
holy roses in my hair.
[Songs of Longing] — Rainer Maria Rilke

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands. — Bob Dylan

Our
songs
live
longer
than
our
kingdoms. — Atticus Poetry

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. — Heinrich Heine

leave me some music
that's chocolate
for the heart. — Sanober Khan

perhaps like me she's vainly hoping
and some news awaits,
but the moist earth already holds him
in her strong embrace... — Nikola Vaptsarov