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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
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
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
It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.
— Earl Sweatshirt
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around.
— Ross Lynch
Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.
— John Steinbeck
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 forgetThis 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
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
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
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
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
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
