Happens Quote by Billy Collins

Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.

— Billy Collins

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry…

— Billy Collins

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether…

— Peter Davison

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

— Allen Ginsberg

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 spoken to many broadcasters about bringing poetry to television and they're usually not keen.

— Frank Skinner

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

— Fleur Adcock

When people decide to talk publicly about poetry as an art form and how it's received, they often get very abject about it: "Nobody…

— Eileen Myles

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the…

— Wislawa Szymborska

I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows…

— Tracy K. Smith

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock…

— Jim Carroll