“Reciting a poem aloud, you are not like an actor, rather you come to understand, then to be, the voice of the poem itself.”

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American poet 1929–2013

John Hollander (1929–2013) American poet

“Reading a poem aloud by someone who understands it, can be a crucial experience, but better yet is reading it aloud oneself.”

John Hollander (1929–2013) American poet

“A poem is like a score for the human voice.”

Li-Young Lee (1957) American writer

“The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation.”

Edward Hirsch (1950)

How to Read a Poem And Fall in Love with Poetry (1998)

“This poem is not addressed to you.
You may come into it briefly,
But no one will find you here, no one.
You will have changed before the poem will.”

Donald Justice (1925–2004) Poet, teacher

Poem
Departures (1973)

“Who says my poems are poems?
My poems are not poems.
When you know that my poems are not poems,
Then we can speak of poetry.”

Ryōkan (1758–1831) Japanese Buddhist monk

Variant translation: Who says my poems are poems? My poems are not poems. After you know my poems are not poems, Then we can begin to discuss poetry! "Zen Poetics of Ryokan" in Simply Haiku: A Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry (Summer 2006) http://www.hermitary.com/articles/ryokan_poetics.html Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf : Zen Poems of Ryokan (1993)

“I like to think that the poem is trying to hit you in the gut. I like to think that the poem comes from someplace [of] deep and intense emotion and [is] this thing that I can't run away from...”

Reginald Betts (1980) American writer

On choosing poetry as his go-to writing form in “'Felon' Author Says, 'Everybody Has To Tell Their Kids Something'” https://www.npr.org/2019/11/03/775605155/felon-author-says-everybody-has-to-tell-their-kids-something in NPR (2019 Nov 3)

“There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.”

Roberto Bolaño book The Savage Detectives

Variant: There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
Source: The Savage Detectives

“For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

The Big Sea (1940)

“You must believe: a poem is a holy thing — a good poem, that is.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

Poetry and Craft (1965)

“Reciting a poem aloud, you are not like an actor, rather you come to understand, then to be, the voice of the poem itself.”

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