If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.