Poeticism Quotes

I actually hate lyrics, and I hate it when they're quoted in reviews. I don't think they matter that much; it's the sounds of words - not the words - that I look for.

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

My favourite writers are always great storytellers, like Bruce Springsteen; I adore Bruce Springsteen. I feel like he doesn't beat around the bush, and he doesn't overcomplicate things. He puts things into layman's terms and tells stories that anyone can understand.

Lyricism is about painting a picture. It doesn't have to be a bunch of punchlines.

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

George has left in his songs, in the transcendent beauty of his voice, and in the poetic expression of his soul, the very best of himself.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.