Has beens Quote by Robert Schumann

My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.

— Robert Schumann

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

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've written some poetry, but...songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing.

— Mike Gordon

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

— John McLaughlin

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

— Benjamin Clementine

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

— Edward Hirsch

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got…

— Sylvia Plath

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life.

— Gulzar