Quotes About Tone In Poetry

#1. For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

Cornel West

#2. Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous.

Jim Crace

#3. We have careful thought for the stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest;
But oft for 'our own' the bitter tone,
Though we love our own the best.

Margaret E. Sangster

#4. The gospel of Truth is holy word of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Being shown a gesture of love is like being offered a portion of God.

Deepak Chopra

#6. The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.

Aberjhani

#7. I am the punishment of God ... If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

Genghis Khan

#8. Hooray for the good people of Genoa

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#9. Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.

Edgar Allan Poe

#10. Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

Franz Grillparzer

#11. Torture?" Primrose's tone was thoughtful. "Cold tea?" "German poetry." Percy reached to a shelf and offered up an unpleasantly fat leather-bound volume. Rue was arrested. "There's such a thing as German poetry?" Primrose nodded seriously. "Yes. Save yourself.

Gail Carriger

#12. I twist like a flower
at the sound of your voice
But you leave the receiver
static most days
You have me growing into a dial tone

All it would take is your voice
saying my name
And I would behead myself
to be carried around on your lapel

Kait Rokowski

#13. When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open
up.

Iyanla Vanzant

#14. Language is rich, and malleable. It is a living, vibrant material, and every part of a poem works in conjunction with every other part - the content, the place, the diction, the rhythm, the tone-as well as the very sliding, floating, thumping, rapping sounds of it.

Mary Oliver

#15. Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.

Julian Baggini

#16. A writer is the conscience of the world.

Doris Lessing

#17. Well," said Madame Morrible in a carrying tone, "one expects poetry, if it is Poetry, to offend. It is the Right of Art.

Gregory Maguire

#18. You go to church to respect God, not the priest. By not going to church, you disrespect God, not the priest.
- Don Camillo

Giovannino Guareschi

#19. I like music that just gives you goose bumps.

Antonio Sabato Jr.

#20. I'm sorry I ruined your homecoming."
He kissed me once more and then shook his head. "The only thing that could ruin this is not being with you.

Markelle Grabo

#21. He was around where the tree-line bulged herniatically out toward the end of the West Courts' fencing.

David Foster Wallace

#22. From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that was, that is, and that ever would
be.

Jamie A. Hughes