Homer Quotes

I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do think with poets that I like, like Charles Olson or Ezra Pound, they were rewriting constantly, until the poem becomes a diamond.But with music I don't really feel that way.

Writing a song is like - you're writing a song all the time. It's just when it pops out. It's been there all the time. It's not something that suddenly you do it. It's always there. Suddenly, it's in the right mixture inside you to come out. Usually when you're writing on the piano or a guitar, you don't write in lyrics, on their own. To me it's very boring.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

It seems like I've been writing since birth! I started writing poems before I got to school. I wrote the class musical in first grade - both words and music. It was about a bunch of vegetables who got together in a salad. I played the chief carrot!

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.

I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

I don't write songs, songs write me. ... Writing a song can be agony or ecstasy. It can take half an hour or half a year. ... The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.

My method is simple: not to bother about poetry. It must come of its own accord. Merely whispering its name drives it away.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.