Glen Campbell Quotes

I'm a big fan of lyrics - lyrics are the thing that move me in certain ways.

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

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'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.

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

I love an imperfect rhyme.

I like lyrics a lot.

Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing - it's either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and politics, which I've done on occasion.

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

I love clever lyrics.

I'm actually a true lyricist.

I think I'm a good lyricist.

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

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

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

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.