Michael Schmidt (poet): Soundness

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

“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

“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