That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of…

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

— Richard F. Thomas

“Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose! All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see 's…

— Tony Harrison

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry…

— Herbert Read

“The Quran is the best of companions, being always available, truthful, comforting, trustworthy, and beneficial, it has about it a quality of sweetness. It…

— A'id al-Qarni

In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which…

— Lord Byron

Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for…

— John Steinbeck

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times…

— J. William Fulbright

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but…

— Plutarch

There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like,…

— Black Francis

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing…

— Sara Teasdale

And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them,…

— Anonymous

They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.

— Coco Lee

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom…

— Emily Robison