Alive Quote by Philip Levine

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Helen Vendler

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

— Erica Jong

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

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

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud

So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be…

— Tony Hoagland

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

— Norman MacCaig

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“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