Quotes About Harmony

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete, The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

Will be but corpses dressed in frocks, who cannot speak to birds or rocks.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.

Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

I'm a poet who practices Zen. And it's not, I'm somebody who practices Zen who writes poetry. There's no separation for me.