Books Quote by Basil Bunting

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

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

— Oprah Winfrey

When I began to write novels, I wanted to keep that element of interaction with the reader that exists in poetry, not just for…

— Michael Ondaatje

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners…

— Christopher Logue

“Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.”

— David Gordon

A poem, necessarily, sits at a register that's different from our usual conversational voices. You have to listen more actively to get to the…

— Tracy K. Smith

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

— J. Patrick Lewis

My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.

— James Arthur

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

— Douglas Dunn

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

— Octavio Paz

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

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If…

— Jorge Luis Borges