Authority Quote by Lorna Goodison

To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate…

— Francesco Clemente

“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

The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And the experience…

— Anne Waldman

Prose talks and poetry sings.

— Franz Grillparzer

I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter,…

— Carol Ann Duffy

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.

— Norman MacCaig

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines. It's fully alive, and I think…

— Derek Walcott

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be…

— Jacques Maritain

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

An operatic voice is like no other.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good…

— Adrian Matejka