Michael Schmidt (poet) Quotes (10 quotes)

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Famous Michael Schmidt (poet) Quotes

“Poetry is a collaborative art, and yet—as it is being created—the most solitary and 'individual' of activities.”

Michael Schmidt (poet)

Reading Modern Poetry, London, 1989

“The reader does not need a technical vocabulary to read poetry, only a voice in the head or out loud which can deliver the sounds.”

Michael Schmidt (poet)

The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006

“Poetry is a process, a form of discovery, which if it serves a cause, transcends it.”

Michael Schmidt (poet)

Reading Modern Poetry, London, 1989

“Poetry is a langage with a shape”

Michael Schmidt (poet)

Lives of the Poets, Phoenix, 1988

“What matters in poetry is form, how words work together, the sounds and silences their combinations make. The ordered effects they produce on the attentive hearer.”

Michael Schmidt (poet)

Lives of the Poets, Phoenix, 1988

“Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.”

Michael Schmidt (poet)

The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006

Michael Schmidt (poet) Quotes

“In poetry much of the sense and most of the pleasure resides in the sounds the poem make.”

Michael Schmidt (poet)

The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006

Pleasure , Sense

“A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance, or across the other side of the world.”

Michael Schmidt (poet)

Lives of the Poets, Phoenix, 1988

World

“Prose and poetry are different in construction. You can lie back and read prose, and you can read it fast. Poetry on the other hand, requires a different kind of attention and concentration … the effect it has on the ear and the imagination.”

Michael Schmidt (poet)

The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006

Lie , Imagination , Reading

“We read with our ears”

Michael Schmidt (poet)

Lives of the Poets, Phoenix, 1988

Reading

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