Chester Bennington Quotes

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

Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

My fans have always loved my metaphors.

I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

I like poems that are little games.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my admiration is matched only by my envy.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

One of your jobs as a speechwriter is to transform the bureaucratic into the poetic.

The single thing I've found it valuable to memorize is poetry.

I enjoy the inventive ways in which language is manipulated to make meaning.

If there's a track that's rhyme friendly, the verse will basically write itself. If the track is less rhyme friendly, you have to put forth a little more effort to get the song out.

While writing a normal song, we just pen four lines and then we have a chorus and some lines again. But rap is about storytelling and requires extra effort to write.

I got into Shakespeare and all of that stuff in high school and then got out of it because it got too complicated. But all of those things just helped me to put words together. It gave me a different perspective.