Direct Quote by Billy Collins

There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose…

— Billy Collins

Having a voice unlike another means you've "found yourself" as a writer.

— Lee Klein

Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit…

— Dorianne Laux

A poet must sing for his own people.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

I started writing lyrics to clash with other people in the playground. Now I've developed my own voice and my own style. There's no…

— Kano

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced…

— Jeannette Walls

It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of what it…

— Jamila Woods

I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I…

— Kay Ryan

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

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

To me, writing is a matter of voice. I think like that. The expression I sometimes use to myself is 'actual song.' That what…

— Robert Pinsky

If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance to write…

— Nahnatchka Khan