Just Quote by Mark Knopfler

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

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

— Benjamin Clementine

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

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

— William Shenstone

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that…

— Kevin Young

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

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

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

— Paul Muldoon