Being Quote by Tracy K. Smith

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

I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows…

— Tracy K. Smith

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

— Tony Harrison

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

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

— N.T. Wright

What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you.…

— Daveed Diggs

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

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

— Louise Rosenblatt

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

— Octavio Paz

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

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

— Anonymous

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