#poet

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#create #disbelief #fourth #having #i

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#drowned #generally #get #language #lyric

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

#between #difference #fade #into #live

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#does #each #experience #innocent #learn

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#may #old #old age #orator #poet

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#darkness #own #poet #sings #sits

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#complicated #else #everything #life #poetry

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#get #ignore #making #most #poetry

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#greatest #i #poets #put

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite. ↗

— John Keats

#art