Discovery Quote by Adrian Forsyth

“There is the moment when the silence of the countryside gathers in the ear and breaks into a myriad of sounds:a croaking and squeaking,…

— Italo Calvino

“Poetry is the sound of the human animal.”

— Suniti Namjoshi

“As poets value the sounds of words above their meanings, and images above arguments, I am trying to get thinking people to be aware…

— Alan W. Watts

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises...

— Anonymous

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

“Indeed, everything that could hum, or buzz, or sing, or bloom had a part in my education--noisy-throated frogs, katydids and crickets held in my…

— Helen Keller

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Now it is very striking, and well worth investigating, that such trifling, nay, apparently childish, means as metre and rhyme produce so powerful an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

— James Broughton

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche

Music is in all growing things; And underneath the silky wings Of smallest insects there is stirred A pulse of air that must be…

— George Parsons Lathrop