Quotes About Voice

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

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

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

Poetry is not a luxury.

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

All poetry is political, to some degree.

the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.