Body Quote by Derek Walcott

“Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves on a…

— Arthur Gordon

But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I learned that music comes from the voice, the rhythm and the heart of each person, and that the musicality of those unrecorded melodies…

— Kim Thúy

“Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves…

— Initially NO

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

— David Almond

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will…

— Matt Berninger

In everything I write, I seek out something which I term, 'the music'. This is an energy centre which I cannot define and which…

— Suhayl Saadi

“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

I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.

— Yuna

Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be…

— Jeff Britting

Words and melody are what draw me in, always.

— Matthew Koma