Aloud Quote by Douglas Dunn Download Open image “Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.” — Douglas Dunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aloud Audience Much Poem Poetry Precise Reading
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Also bear in mind, when you're choosing your words and stringing them together, how they sound. This may seem absurd: readers read with their… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think,… — Douglas Dunn Copy Share Image
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. — Douglas Dunn Copy Share Image
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
If I hear an interesting turn of phrase on TV, I'll repeat it back - I just like to roll it around on my… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There was real camaraderie in Girls Aloud, the feeling of one for all, and all for one. — Nadine Coyle Copy Share Image
The gay bunting erects his white crest, and gives utterance to the joy he feels in the presence of his brooding mate; the willow… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
I used to write at home a lot. I used to write a bit for Girls Aloud. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like. — William Greider Copy Share Image
People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard to hear… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
