Age Quote by Edith Sitwell

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

— Orson F. Whitney

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed…

— Leonardo da Vinci

If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other…

— Augustus William Hare

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

— John Steinbeck

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Poetry is philosophy's sister, the one that wears makeup.

— Jennifer Grotz

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless…

— Pietro Aretino

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

— Joshua Logan

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so…

— Henry Purcell