Poetic License Quotes

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty.

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in some way. Apart from things like the murder ballads, the songs I write, at their core, are quite ordinary human concerns, but the process of writing about them transforms them into something else.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

There's a lot of vulnerability in songs - I'm not talking about pop songs - from people that are in the art of songwriting more than the commercial enterprise of it.

In our hands, even the straightest lyric sounded shady.

If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't be the least bit uncomfortable giving it to them. People want songwriters to tell them how they think and how they feel. That's what a song is. That's what I want to hear in a song.

Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.