Steve Earle Quotes

A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

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 the shape and the sound.

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

I like to write poetry.

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.

I love to write poetry.

I love an imperfect rhyme.

I was an English major, and I always wrote poems.

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.

I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems!

The Italian word 'stanza' means 'a room', and a room is a good way to conceive of a stanza. A room, generally speaking, is sufficient for its own purposes, but it does not constitute a house. A stanza has the same sense of containment, without being complete or independent.

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Unlike film, live theater is an anti-naturalistic medium in which character is mainly illuminated through speech and movement.