Inner voice Quote by Tony Harrison

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

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright

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

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

A poem is like a score for the human voice.

— Li-Young Lee

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

— Li-Young Lee

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

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

— Anonymous

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of…

— Edward Hirsch

Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what…

— Dana Gioia

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice. And the…

— Robert Pinsky