Air Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens…

— Plato

The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to…

— Aberjhani

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

— Lord Byron

To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate…

— Francesco Clemente

Poetry is composing for the breath.

— Peter Davison

The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the epoch, the…

— Thomas Hampson

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

— Jose Marti

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure…

— William Faulkner

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

— Mark Knopfler

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

— H. L. Mencken

“Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage—strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its illusions, and…

— Charles Dickens

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of…

— Victor Hugo