“In poetry much of the sense and most of the pleasure resides in the sounds the poem make.”
Michael Schmidt (poet) (1947) American poet
The Great Modern Poets, London, 2006
“Poetry is the most bodliy of arts, the medium of poetry is the column of breath rising from the diaphragm in the individual's chest to be shaped into meaning sounds inside the mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.”
The Art of Poetry - interview 1995 with Downing & Kunitz
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American poet, editor, literary critic, academic. 1940Related quotes
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