Joanna Newsom Quotes

Lyricists play with words.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

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

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

Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.

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

I like to write poetry.

I love to write poetry.

I love an imperfect rhyme.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

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.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

A really good poem is full of music.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

I fell in love with rhyming when I turned 13. I was in junior high. I got into it, but I wasn't serious. It was just for fun.

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.