Late Quote by Robert Morgan

I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as…

— Matt de la Pena

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

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

I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an…

— Andrew O'Hagan

I first got caught up in this marvelous feeling of being spoken to in that very direct, private, magical way by a poem when…

— Tracy K. Smith

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in…

— Diane Wakoski

I guess it was easier for me to find my voice in poetry than it was in fiction. I'm working on fiction again, and…

— Barbara Hamby

I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the…

— Francesca Lia Block

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

— Charles Olson