Paul McCartney Quotes

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.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

I'm actually a true lyricist.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

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

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

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

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

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

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

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

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.

I like to write poetry.

A really good poem is full of music.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

I love an imperfect rhyme.

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'm a wizard at poetry.

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

I'm a poet.