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The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

— Mark Knopfler

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

— F. Sionil Jose

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

— Kenneth Koch

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

— Jackie Kennedy

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

— Conrad Aiken

My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

— Countee Cullen

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets,…

— Sylvia Plath

As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the…

— Conrad Aiken

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want…

— Adrienne Rich