Breakdown Quote by Thomas Hampson

“Poetry is the language of the soul; Poetic Prose, the language of my heart. Each line must flow as in a song, and strike…

— Lori R. Lopez

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

— Lord Byron

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Mark Knopfler

Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as…

— M. Jayachandran

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

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

“My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me”

— Countee Cullen

The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as…

— Kevin Young

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

— William Shenstone

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

— Earle Birney

When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't…

— Edward Hirsch