Mary Szybist Quotes

I'm really into poetry.

I love an imperfect rhyme.

I'm a wizard at poetry.

Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

I love to write poetry.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

I read mostly poetry.

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.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

I like to write poetry.

I never had much education in English poetry as such.

The cliche is dead poetry.

I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry.

I'm a poet.

I often say poetry was my first love.

I'm only interested in poetry.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

Lyricists play with words.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

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

You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.