I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings.” — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
“Sex and love are what make the world go round. It's the heart of poetry and music.” — Vonnie Davis Copy Share Image
I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't… — Ray Manzarek Copy Share Image
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful… — Robert Turnbull Copy Share Image
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art,… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Bangladesh is a world of metaphor, of high and low theater, of great poetry and music. You talk to a rice farmer… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy poetry and… — Michael Martin Murphey Copy Share Image
The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings.… — Louise Jameson Copy Share Image
Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“In any case, perhaps the quest for data to support our actions gets overemphasized. After all, our emotions distinguish us. Art and… — Eric Blehm Copy Share Image
Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Well! Being born into this world there are, I suppose, many aims which we may strive to attain. The Imperial Throne of… — Yoshida Kenkō Copy Share Image
Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
“...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a… — John Piper Copy Share Image
All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his… — John Bertram Phillips Copy Share Image
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
I was thinking a little bit about this very thing - poetry and music - the other day when I was listening… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“In all poor countries, where general culture is not very advanced, monasteries give to the masses the silence, poetry and music, for… — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
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