Agree Quote by Alice Meynell

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless…

— Pietro Aretino

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely a repetition…

— Henry David Thoreau

“People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody…

— Diana Georgeff

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and…

— Masiela Lusha

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear…

— Helen Vendler

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

— Mary Ruefle

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed down by…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think…

— Derek Walcott

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

— Christopher Logue