“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

“Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.”

“Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”

“We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.”

“The written word has its limits and its challenges, for the primal sound in the whole world is that made by the human voice, and the likeness of this human voice must be rendered in dots and strokes...Yet I never forget that the voice, too, is important...Don't mumble or hesitate. Speak...in a loud voice, clearly, and without fear.”

“You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!”