David Antin Quotes

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

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

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.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

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.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician. All of his poems are all like songs, and that's how I always try to start my thoughts.

I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.

People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

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

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

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.

My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

I like to write poetry.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

Poetry is composing for the breath.