Michael Schmidt (poet): Poetry

Michael Schmidt (poet) is American poet. Explore interesting quotes on poetry.
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“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

Art

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

Michael Schmidt (poet)

The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006

“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

Silence

“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

Reading

“Poetry is a langage with a shape”

Michael Schmidt (poet)

Lives of the Poets, Phoenix, 1988

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

Michael Schmidt (poet)

Reading Modern Poetry, London, 1989

“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

“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