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

— Tinie Tempah

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✓Similar Perspectives

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

— J. D. Souther

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

— Janine Turner

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

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

— Terrance Hayes

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

— N. Scott Momaday

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

— Bernie Taupin

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.

— Edward Hirsch

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

— Thomas Lynch

✗Opposing Perspectives

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.

— Stephen Sondheim

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.

— C. K. Williams