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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

We knock upon silence for an answering music. — Archibald MacLeish

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

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

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music. — Vincent Van Gogh

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'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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry stands or falls by its music. — John Burnside

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

I didn't want to sing.
I wanted to be music. — Jenim Dibie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 play a piano of words - its icy tinkle echoes through your halls — John Geddes

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

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

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

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

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. — Ezra Pound

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

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

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

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,
Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri

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

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

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

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

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

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

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

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

The poetry of country music will survive. — Rodney Crowell

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

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

Into the day as by dream I swim
To the music of nourished meaning. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now. — Ian Anderson

leave me some music
that's chocolate
for the heart. — Sanober Khan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Has father from Heaven
Sent the Angel to me? — E.A. Bucchianeri

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme. — Morrissey

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

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

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

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

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

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