Differences Quote by Robert Pinsky

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

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

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

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

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

A poem, necessarily, sits at a register that's different from our usual conversational voices. You have to listen more actively to get to the…

— Tracy K. Smith

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

— Octavio Paz

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader’s head.

— Christopher Logue

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the…

— Anna Kamienska

A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.

— Tony Harrison