Bass Quote by Nikki Giovanni

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people.…

— Patti Smith

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

— Amiri Baraka

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

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

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual…

— Jonathan Lethem

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

— Benjamin Clementine

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so…

— Henry Purcell

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams