Poetic Music Quotes

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.

I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which who listen had need bring docile thoughts and purged ears.