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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
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 eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a master hand alone can reach. — Alexander Pope
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
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
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
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
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
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
There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.
— Bo Burnham
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
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 pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories. — Brenda Sutton Rose
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
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
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
The scholarship on music and poetry in Mexico - and Latin America more generally - has yet to receive substantial historical attention.
— Stephen Neufeld
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
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
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
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
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