Distraction Quote by Billy Collins

Radio leaves much to the audience's imagination, allows the listeners to fill in so much, provided that the voices convey enough.

— Agnes Moorehead

Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't have time…

— Billy Collins

One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the…

— Peter Blegvad

Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't…

— David Rodigan

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

— Herbie Hancock

I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it,…

— Malcolm Turnbull

I think radio's a beautiful thing, because it's all about the imagination, and it's all about the capability of the performer being able to…

— Paterson Joseph

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

— Allen Ginsberg

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone…

— Ira Glass

If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You…

— Terry Gross

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

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

— Frank Skinner