Aftermath Quote by James Fenton

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

poetry is where the language is renewed.

— Margaret Atwood

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

— Gaston Bachelard

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

— Joseph Campbell

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

Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both…

— Denise Levertov

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because…

— Herbert Spencer

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

— Deborah Jowitt

“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”

— Dana Gioia

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

— Anonymous

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear…

— Helen Vendler