“Reading a poem aloud by someone who understands it, can be a crucial experience, but better yet is reading it aloud oneself.”
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John Hollander (1929–2013) American poet
'A Conversation with John Hollander' (by email) by Paul Devlin vol 1 St. John's University Humanities Review April 2003
“In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.”
Marshall McLuhan book The Gutenberg Galaxy
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 94
“Truly fine poetry must be read aloud.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"The Divine Comedy" (1977)
Context: Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.
Yvor Winters (1900–1968) American poet and literary critic
The Audible Reading of Poetry (1951)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter
"Tarquin of Cheapside"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
