Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. — Voltaire 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
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
“The best works around us, whether they are poetry, music, or artwork, come from the heart.” — Ashley Wiger Copy Share Image
“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.” — Noam Shpancer 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
We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the people, landscape, poetry, music, history and the Guinness. Being there makes me think of my mother… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude-they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than… — Herb Elliott Copy Share Image
A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all… — Benjamin Clementine 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
“Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and rest, with their interests of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know,… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“Shadows of Shadows passing... It is now 1831... and as always, I am absorbed with a delicate thought. It is how poetry… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I must study politics and war," wrote John Adams, "that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics, and philosophy, geography,… — Charles Krauthammertha Copy Share Image
“There was a time when I thought that film, unlike other art forms (being the most democratic of them all) had a… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“We come into a world with a history shaped by the subtle dichotomy of culture and ethos, the dynamic forces of ideas… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. — Benjamin Clementine 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
“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
