Clear Quote by Robert Pinsky

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

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

— Douglas Dunn

Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The…

— Laura Riding

When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.

— Oprah Winfrey

But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and…

— Ian Mcewan

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

— Aristotle

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners…

— Christopher Logue

I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that…

— Billy Collins

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

— Carl Sandburg

When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out…

— Billy Collins

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

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning