Aloud Quote by Douglas Dunn

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

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

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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