Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical…

If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really describe in…

— Jim Capaldi

Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who made them…

— Thomas Fuller

I think a lot about writing and I try to read a lot. Being a musician, I don't take the words lightly; they are…

— Steve Gunn

“Language is music. Written words are musical notation. The music of a piece of fiction establishes the way in which it is to be…

— Marilynne Robinson

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and…

— Carol Ann Duffy

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

— Graciela Iturbide

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

— Pattiann Rogers

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror…

— Phil Ochs

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of…

— Muriel Rukeyser

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

— Jim Diamond

“I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you to understand…

— Sun Ra

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and…

— Gary Ross

I love words, I think they're fascinating and incredibly wonderful things and part of the joy of my work is that I not only…

— Kate Bush

“It’s hard to hear the music behind the words when their meanings get in the way,” she told me once.”

— Ken Liu

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

— Jayne Anne Phillips