Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
It's not easy to define poetry.
People used to say poems were different to songs but I don't think they are.
For better or worse, poetry is my life.
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur over this, that, and the other.
I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.
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