Voltaire Quote

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.


In French: "La poésie est la musique de l'âme, et surtout des âmes grandes et sensibles."
Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, Tome V (ed. 1829), p. 466
Also in: A philosophical dictionary, from the Fr. [by J.G. Gurton]. (ed. 1824)


Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.