Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. — Quoted

“Quotes”

“Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.”

Bernie Taupin · Poetry

⇩

Show me another

Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.

David Antin

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

Poetry

Jack Prelutsky

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

Poetry

Robert Morgan

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Poetry

Mark Knopfler

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

Poetry