Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician. All of his poems are all like songs, and that's how I always try to start my thoughts.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

Poetry stands or falls by its music.

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

A really good poem is full of music.

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Poetry is meant to be heard.

Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.

My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.