Poetry Music Quotes

18 Poetry Music quotes by 14 unique authors

• There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de la Bruyere
• There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
• Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all… — David Foster Wallace
• We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
• Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude-they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had… — Herb Elliott
• 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
• Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — David Foster Wallace
• All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized… — Bernard Berenson
• A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily… — Pope Benedict XVI
• In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up -… — Renzo Piano
• Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin
• The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather,… — Michelle Obama
• Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its… — Edgar Allan Poe
• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the… — David O. McKay
• I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval architecture, in order… — John Adams
• Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who Wrote These Poetry Music Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 18 Poetry Music Quotes as follows:

• 2 Poetry Music Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 2 Poetry Music Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
• 2 Poetry Music Quotes by David Foster Wallace
• 1 Poetry Music Quote by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
• 1 Poetry Music Quote by Renzo Piano
• 1 Poetry Music Quote by Pope Benedict XVI
• 1 Poetry Music Quote by Michelle Obama
• 1 Poetry Music Quote by Marie-Antoine Careme
• 1 Poetry Music Quote by John Adams
• 1 Poetry Music Quote by Herb Elliott
• 1 Poetry Music Quote by Edgar Allan Poe
• 1 Poetry Music Quote by David O. McKay
• 1 Poetry Music Quote by Christian Louboutin
• 1 Poetry Music Quote by Bernard Berenson