Ballads Quote by Charles Ives

“Tomorrow I shall write something beautiful, something so serene that storms will rise suddenly and protest with ferocious screams. I shall write poems for…

— Tonny K. Brown

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

“I sing to him that rests below, And, since the grasses round me wave, I take the grasses of the grave, And make them…

— Alfred Tennyson

“Go gather by the humming sea Some twisted, echo-harbouring shell. And to its lips thy story tell, And they thy comforters will be. Rewording…

— W.B. Yeats

“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping…

— Traci Lea LaRussa

“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

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Anonymous

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

— Carl Sandburg

“Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its own rhythm…

— John H Ritter

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

— Mark Knopfler

“The nature of poems Is a matter of words and deeds An intimate encounter of voice In the ache of the heart In the…

— Kendall Dana Lockerman