Common Quote by Anonymous

Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.

— Sidney Lanier

“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”

— Dana Gioia

Where I come from, we sing poetry.

— Derek Walcott

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

— James Fenton

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think…

— David Antin

Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?

— Jim Elliot

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

— Zoltan Kodaly

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

— David Antin

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral,…

— James Fenton

I don't really write music in the traditional sense of chorus, verse. It's more experimental sounding. The process comes from an experimentation with noise.

— Bonobo