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As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry. — Henry Purcell

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music. — Wallace Stevens

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines. — E.B. White

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. — Herbert Spencer

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly. — Boyd K. Packer

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. — Henry David Thoreau

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind. — Sonia Orwell

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language. — Janet Fitch

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving — Jane Hirshfield

Music gives inspiration ... one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover some witty ideas. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. — Voltaire

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny. — Earl Sweatshirt

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music. — John Quincy Adams

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent — Victor Hugo

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago. — Hafez Nazeri

In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous. — Albert Einstein

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it. — William Wordsworth

Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious. — Narendra Modi

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging. — Mary Karr

The truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same. — Muriel Rukeyser

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. — Anthony Burgess

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become. — Carol Ann Duffy

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. — Laura Marling

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. — Brian Harris

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. — Nikki Giovanni

All in tune with love and the slow world moving from the poem - STAY from the book - RidingTheEscalator — Jay Woodman

Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man? — Douglas Wynne

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God. — Thomas Merton

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. — Charles Darwin

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity. — Walter Mosley

Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride. — Lou Reed

Uncomplicated joy and sorrow is not matter for philosophy, but rather for the simpler kinds of poetry and music. — Bertrand Russell

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. — George Steiner

The fun and fame do not last, while the memory of a real helper is kept green long after poetry is forgotten and music silent. — Louisa May Alcott

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer

Level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting — Elif Shafak

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music, Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled. — Emily Dickinson

A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry. — Mary Oliver

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. — J. Carter Brown

and gamblers are dry and empty souls, their hearts have been sucked dry, there's no music in their walk, they are colorless and condemned. — Charles Bukowski

The Fine Arts are five in number: Painting, Music, Poetry, Sculpture, and Architecture--whereof the principle branch is Confectionery. — Marie-Antoine Careme

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech ... — May Sarton

Mathematics is the poetry of logic and the music of reason. — Albert Einstein

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. — Charles Dickens

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. — Aberjhani

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. — Bo Burnham

When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings
are the only form of art which will remain to reign. — Soar

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. — James Gates Percival

Sex and love are what make the world go round. It's the heart of poetry and music. — Vonnie Davis

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry. — Madame De Stael

A song rises up from the belly of my past
and rocks me in the bosom of buried memories. — Brenda Sutton Rose

Start with your heart, and only good can follow! — Ocean

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new. — Aberjhani

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music. — John Steinbeck

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do. — Stephen Sondheim

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. — Ernst Haas

Poets sing our human music for us. — Carol Ann Duffy

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel ... I sort of get very excited and fed by. — Ben Whishaw

I was born to make mistakes, not to be perfect. — Ross Lynch

They come here wanting to be loved, and the boys on the stage receive them from the poem - STAY in the Book - RidingTheEscalator — Jay Woodman

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos. — David Lee Roth

Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. — L.M. Elliott

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry. — Rita Dove

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. — Dennis Gabor

The scholarship on music and poetry in Mexico - and Latin America more generally - has yet to receive substantial historical attention. — Stephen Neufeld

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write. — Shane McCrae

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words. — Eddie Izzard

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music. — Confucius

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees. — Alfred Austin

Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings. — Robert James Waller

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G.H. Hardy

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis. — Amiri Baraka

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long. — Russell Smith

Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music. — MEDVGNO

Let my name perish,
the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it. — Sidney Lanier

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same. — Lana Del Rey

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. — Alfred North Whitehead

Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language. — Debasish Mridha

My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law. — Robert Schumann

Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken to the body before the mind. — Rebecca Solnit

The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time
music and poetry
and not the arts of space
sculpture and painting. — Salvador De Madariaga

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. — James Broughton

There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it. — Noam Shpancer

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go. — Criss Jami

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color. — James Whistler

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music. — Richard Dawkins

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions. — Pattiann Rogers

The rhyme pad was a spell book - it summoned asphalt elementals, elder gods, and weeping ancestors, all of whom had your back. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody. — Joshua Logan

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches. — Carl Sandburg

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. — Adrian Mitchell

Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around. — Ross Lynch