Hearing Quote by Norman MacCaig

It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

— Thomas Carlyle

And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.

— Virginia Woolf

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

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

— Ray Bradbury

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

You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.

— Helen Vendler

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

— Patricia Hampl

“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.”

— Ray Bradbury

The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice. And the…

— Robert Pinsky

“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

All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.

— Selima Hill

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche