If music and sweet poetry agree.
Richard Barnfield
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RICHARD BARNFIELD Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
JOSHUA LOGAN Painting is poetry in pictures as music is poetry in notes.
LEAH DANCEL Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
WALTER MOSLEY Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation
and specificity.
WALTER MOSLEY The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Music is poetry with personality
ROSS LYNCH Music is poetry in motion.
P.M. TERRELL Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.
RICHARD SIKEN leave me some music
that’s chocolate
for the heart.
SANOBER KHAN Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
DENNIS GABOR Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
DAVID LEE ROTH If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, ...
A. R. AMMONS Music , literature with poetry makes a perfect paradise.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
RICHARD WAGNER Poetry is the use of imagery in making verses that are palatable than sweet potatoes.
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BUCK OWENS Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
JOHN MILTON Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie
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CATH CROWLEY It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.
GEORGE ELIOT Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.
VOLTAIRE Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.
SHAH ASAD RIZVI I am never merry when I hear sweet music
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
MARK KNOPFLER Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or p...
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON I thought I could play at a higher level. And I wanted to get a better education.
IF RICHARD KIRTLEY I will go across the middle and make a catch. I want to show them I have mental toughness.
IF RICHARD KIRTLEY He had no clue who I was.
IF RICHARD KIRTLEY Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
RONALD REAGAN Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
JELLY ROLL MORTON You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they g...
NIKKI GIOVANNI Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of...
C. K. WILLIAMS If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some...
CHARLES DARWIN One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
VOLTAIRE If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on...
MORRISSEY Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on.
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ROBERT A. SCHUMANN I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought...
BRUCE COCKBURN We pull our boots on with both hands
but we can't punch ourselves awake and all I can do
...
RICHARD SIKEN I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I bid the chords sweet music make,
And all must follow in my wake.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
BETTE MIDLER If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some...
CHARLES DARWIN I suppose I agree that we have had an influence on modern popular music.
DAVE GILMOUR If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
JOYCE CAROL OATES I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
NASTASSJA KINSKI Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN I just wanna drink chocolate milk with my lovely!
WALTER MITTY Music do I hear?Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,When time is broke and no proportion kept...
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TYLER JOSEPH STAINS
With red clay between my toes,
and the sun setting over my head,
the ghost of ...
BRENDA SUTTON ROSE I intend to be an outstanding mother and provide a stable, nurturing home. I’ve read all the lates...
JOSIE RIVIERA When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk a...
ATO ESSANDOH In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it g...
EZRA POUND If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some ye...
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JAMES MARTINEAU Modern love - in the movies and music - especially country music - is full of tales of women exactin...
MARY KAY ANDREWS The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too ...
EZRA POUND There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.
BO BURNHAM If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
ROBERT GRAVES How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,Like softest music to attending ears!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He felt that the children brought him great pleasure. His daughter, who is a dancer and choreographe...
CELIA JACOBOWITZ When have I, when have I ever forced anyone to do anything, he starts to say: but Richard cuts in, "...
HILARY MANTEL I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred ...
J. CARTER BROWN Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and p...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent f...
ROBERT SCHUMANN I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn...
BRUCE COCKBURN I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merge...
PATTI SMITH If you can't agree with yourself, you will go mad. If you can't agree with your life, you can't unde...
EPHDAN [Fifty-nine year old Richard Smith, of Sylvania Township, doesn't need a state poet laureate - or so...
RUDYARD KIPLING Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' ...
ALEX WINSTON At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical...
SATYAJIT RAY My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
COUNTEE CULLEN Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
EDGAR WILSON NYE I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetr...
RUSSELL SIMMONS ...and your body is the harp of your soul, and it is yours to bring forth sweet music or confused so...
KHALIL GIBRAN If poetry dies, nothing lives !
VIHANG A. NAIK When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had ...
MARIA CALLAS When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has mi...
MARIA CALLAS I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything e...
ELTON JOHN It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind ...
EARL SWEATSHIRT Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and m...
L.M. ELLIOTT Music resembles poetry, in each
Are nameless graces which no methods teach,
And which a ma...
ALEXANDER POPE I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and fli...
MARY BALOGH Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a...
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RICHARD CORLISS In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This ...
RICHARD CORLISS 'Blade Runner' was one of several dystopian science-fiction films to tank in the early and m...
RICHARD CORLISS Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.
RICHARD CARLSON I believe it has been said that one copy of the "Times" contains
more useful information than the w...
RICHARD COBDEN Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.
RICHARD BRANSON I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live n...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I ...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when a...
RICHARD LAMM "Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as
anything comes across him in the ...
RICHARD BENTLEY There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because y...
RICHARD BACH What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.
RICHARD SHELTON Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as th...
RICHARD MARCINKO If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, t...
RICHARD MARCINKO The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been...
RICHARD DAWKINS Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Human...
RICHARD DAWKINS False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives n...
RICHARD BURTON If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, -- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such li...
RICHARD LOVELACE