“Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.”
Voltaire
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
Oscar Wilde
“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.”
Joshua Logan
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.”
T.S. Eliot
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