Music Quote by John Keats

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe…

— John Keats

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe…

— John Keats

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

— John Keats

Oh all the times I've listened, and all the times I've heard All the melodies I'm missing, and all the magic words, And all…

— Harry Chapin

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

— Helen Vendler

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— Washington Irving

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— Alexandria Clarke

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— Richard Dawkins

“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the…

— Erica Jong

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

“Time gives poetry to a battlefield...”

— Graham Greene