If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to…

“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are…

— Henry David Thoreau

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

— J. Carter Brown

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

— Bo Burnham

I was sensitive to music and poetry, and it was around me growing up.

— Rosanne Cash

I love to write music and poetry.

— Naturi Naughton

“Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man?”

— Anonymous

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

— Joshua Logan

Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward…

— Joan Larkin

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

“Music is the poetry of the air.”

— Anonymous

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

— William Matthews

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…

— James Whistler

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy whenit departs too far from the dance; that poetry…

— Anonymous

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

— George Eliot

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that…

— Ezra Pound