And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely…

Winds and waters keepA hush more dead than any sleep.

— William Allingham

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement…

— Carl Sandburg

As long as I have Music, I will never be lonely. She is my wife. No prenup!

— Sonny Long

“She rides the sandworm of space! She guides through all storms Into the land of gentle winds. Though we sleep by the snake's den,…

— Frank Herbert

“Sun and waves and gentle winds, all love and lightness.”

— Tim O'Brien

“Listen so softly to the gentle winds gliding through joyful dancing trees and know Oneness”

— Leland Lewis

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began…

— James Fenton

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

— Seamus Heaney

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

— Edward Hirsch

I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable…

— Edward Hirsch

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

— A. E. Housman

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have…

— Boris Pasternak

No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we…

— Gregory Orr

“There are only so many people capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing. When it became possible to earn a…

— C.M. Kornbluth

Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur…

— Michael Dirda