Andy Biersack Quotes

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.

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

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

I like poems that are complex.

I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

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

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same time, I want precision. And in order to be precise about stuff, you have to get personal. Symbolism is very boring.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

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

I like to play with tropes.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.

I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story.