Art Quote by Helen Vendler

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the…

— Elfriede Jelinek

Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect…

— William Carlos Williams

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

— W. H. Auden

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Due allowance being made for the sounds of the language, writing aloud is not phonological but phonetic; its aim is not the clarity of…

— Roland Barthes

“And sometimes words become objects of interest in themselves. Suddenly we notice them. We see and hear them the way poets do, as having…

— Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

It's one thing to be saying what you're saying in music because it's art coupled with a lot of different things. Whether you're trying…

— B-Real

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

— Cyndi Lauper

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him…

— Henri Matisse

Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself…

— Leo Tolstoy

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound…

— Eugenio Montale

The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were…

— Immanuel Kant