Addresses Quote by Matthea Harvey

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your…

— John Cooper Clarke

It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will.

— Horace

What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you.…

— Daveed Diggs

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

— Douglas Dunn

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

— Louise Rosenblatt

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright