Grace Quote by Alexander Pope

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from…

— Edgar Allan Poe

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

— Pearl S. Buck

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

— Gwen Harwood

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

Music is the language of the heart without words.

— Shinichi Suzuki

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

— Eddie Izzard

Music is poetry with personality,

— Ross Lynch

“Poetry is like a song without music,” I said loftily. “A song without music is like a body without a soul.”

— Patrick Rothfuss- The Name of the Wind

One cannot say with words what music says without them.

— Steven Feld

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka

Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment –…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

— Walter Mosley