Fit Quote by Richard Dyer

In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will…

— Clinton Scollard

To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least, the contralto…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The poet must always, in every instance, have the vibrant word... that by it's trenchancy can so wound my soul that it whimpers… One…

— Knut Hamsun

“Variety is the Spice of Life. Voices come in all shapes, tones, and sizes. Some are compelling and effective, while others are grating and…

— Susan C. Young

The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

Two voices are there: one is of the deep; It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody, Now roars, now murmurs with the changing sea, Now…

— William Wordsworth

“On no account allow a Vogon to read poetry at you.”

— Douglas Adams

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and…

— Louis Untermeyer

For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.

— Michael Ondaatje

Poetry is composing for the breath.

— Peter Davison

And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret…

— Dante Alighieri