Class Quote by Garth Greenwell

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

— Rita Dove

The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream.…

— Jane Hirshfield

At an early age, I understood music... the rhyme schemes, melodies and harmonies.

— Philip Bailey

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

— Walter Mosley

I wanted to become a writer and felt that poetry was perfected language, so having it in my subconscious mind would make the music…

— Caterina Fake

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of…

— Lorde

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died,…

— Caroline Kennedy

I was born understanding the language of music.

— Julian Bream

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet…

— Juan Felipe Herrera

I'm sort of annoyed that some very basic things about poetic forms were not conveyed to me in the various poetry courses I took…

— Juliana Spahr

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

— James Broughton

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

— Amiri Baraka