Elements Quote by Rita Dove

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

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

— Amiri Baraka

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

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 a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

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

— Earle Birney

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

— Walter Mosley

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

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

— Pattiann Rogers

When I took my first poetry class, I felt that I could understand the relationships between words and the formal qualities of language in…

— Garth Greenwell