The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to…

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

— Ertharin Cousin

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Cheney was among the best secretaries of defence the country has ever had. He was a very effective White House chief of staff. He…

— Barton Gellman

“the late historian and cultural critic Christopher Lasch in his book The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. His description of…

— John Fea

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade...It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

— George Eliot

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

— Rosanne Cash

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

“Music is the poetry of the air.”

— Anonymous

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

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