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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

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

Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up. — Deborah Meyler

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

Poetry reading is the chamber music of the actor's craft. — Robert Lacey

Music is the poetry of the air. — Richter

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

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. — Bette Midler

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music. — H.L. Mencken

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves. — Victor Hugo

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

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain — Steve Chalke

Poetry is music written for the human voice. — Maya Angelou

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! — Dmitri Shostakovich

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. — Benjamin Clementine

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me. — Ryan Adams

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

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear. — Amy Clampitt

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

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

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it. — William Beckett

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music. — Voltaire

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. — Truman Capote

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument. — William Matthews

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean De La Bruyere

Music is poetry in motion. — P.M. Terrell

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

My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me — Countee Cullen

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry. — George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting. — David Hume

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. — James Martineau

Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own. — Maya Angelou

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her. — Jenim Dibie

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

Poetry is a song without music. A song without music is like a body without a soul. — Patrick Rothfuss

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

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

Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music. — Atticus

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

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

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. — Criss Jami

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

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation. — Umberto Boccioni

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

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. — Ouida

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. — Michael Graves

Music is poetry with personality, — Ross Lynch

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music? — Voltaire

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. — Mina Loy

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

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

A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level. — Jay-Z

Country music is the poetry of the American spirit. — Steve Maraboli

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

I love poetry, be it in music or be it in Andrei Tarkovsky, Francesca Woodman or anyone else, I just love poetry. — Graciela Iturbide

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

Music helps to forget
This forsaken tomb,
That is my abode
Cellars down
Far below
Under the ground, ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

Music is the universal language of mankind. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry. — Rajneesh

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

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — W. H. Auden

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin

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

I laugh when people say they don't like poetry. They listen to poetry every day, what do they think music is? — Shannon Lynette

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

My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility. — Alex Lemon

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

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. — George Eliot

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music. — Van Wyck Brooks

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

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

When a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry. — Sybil Marshall

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

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

There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer. — Yanni

The spoken word is ephemeral. The written word, eternal. A symphony, timeless. — A.E. Samaan

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