Believe Quote by Robert Pinsky

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

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

— Tony Harrison

poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.

— Patricia Hampl

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

Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps…

— Seamus Heaney

“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

I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is a vocal art for me - but not necessarily a performative one. It might be reading to oneself or recalling some lines…

— Robert Pinsky

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

A poem is like a score for the human voice.

— Li-Young Lee

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

— Helen Vendler