Hearing Quote by Octavio Paz

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the…

— Ouida

When I used to listen to the poets in other languages and the kind of appreciation they received, I wanted to be there on…

— Gulzar

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

— Harriet Monroe

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

— Plato

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is…

— David Patterson

Prose talks and poetry sings.

— Franz Grillparzer

Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers [as many…

— Kim Hyesoon

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess…

— George Carlin