Calculated Quote by Julia Holter

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

— Feist

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

I switch between fixed forms and free verse often, and enjoy being a poet who can "swing both ways," so to speak.

— Allison Joseph

Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.

— Gylve Nagell

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

— Sylvia Plath

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

— Manuel Puig

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

— Mark Gonzales

Free choice is one of the highest of all the mental processes.

— Maria Montessori

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do.

— Pattiann Rogers

I feel in poetry there aren't that many rules that you need to absolutely live by depending on your style of poetry.

— Masiela Lusha

For me, music is pure abstraction.

— Krzysztof Penderecki