Poetry Quote by Oprah Winfrey Download Open image “When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.” — Oprah Winfrey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Way
There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away! — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is about letting go of the past and not holding on to it” — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image