Be kind Quote by Amiri Baraka

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

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

Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the whole shebang.

— Jonathan Miles

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual…

— Jonathan Lethem

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

— Benjamin Clementine

I'm always looking for poetry's place in the prose. For that moment, let's say, that arrests time, or that sentence in which the musical…

— Jack Driscoll

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of…

— Helen Dunmore

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

— William Shenstone

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