You will find poetry nowhere u...

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

~Joseph Joubert~

Without music, life is a journ...

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

~Pat Conroy~

Without art, the crudeness of ...

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

~George Bernard Shaw~

When you read and understand a...

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

~Stephen Spender~

When words leave off, music be...

When words leave off, music begins.

~Heinrich Heine~

When someone does something we...

When someone does something well, applaud I You will make two people happy.

~Samuel Goldwyn~

When power narrows the area of...

When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.

~John F. Kennedy~

When I hear music, I fear no d...

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

~Henry David Thoreau~

We must not always judge of th...

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

~Edmund Burke~

We are full of rhythms . . . o...

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

~Yehudi Menuhin~

We all have music inside us, a...

We all have music inside us, and can learn how to get it out, one way or another.

~Frank Wilson~

To receive applause for works ...

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

~Georg C. Lichtenberg~

To read a poem in January is a...

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.

~Jean Paul~

They named it Ovation from the...

They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [A Sheep].

~Plutarch~

There is no feeling, except th...

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.

~George Eliot~

There is as much dignity in ti...

There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

~Booker T. Washington~

There are painters who transfo...

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

~Pablo Picasso~

The way to develop the best th...

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

~Charles Schwab~

The true work of art is but a ...

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

~Michelangelo~

The trouble with nude dancing ...

The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.

~Sir Robert Helpmann~