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The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

— Mark Knopfler

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

— Benjamin Clementine

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

— James Tate

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human…

— Bei Dao

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass…

— Nikki Giovanni

Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as…

— M. Jayachandran

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone