Poetry Quote by Kim Hyesoon

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

— Earle Birney

Rhythm must have meaning.

— Ezra Pound

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of…

— Edward Hirsch

“The rhythm," said Goethe, "is an unconscious result of the poetic mood. If one should stop to consider it mechanically, when about to write…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

— Ruggiero Ricci

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

— Marianne Moore

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make…

— Anthony Davis

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

— John Crowe Ransom

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

— Amiri Baraka