“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf , book Orlando: A Biography

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English writer 1882–1941

Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) English poet and professor

The Orchards of Syon II.4-6.
Poetry

“The poetry I love is written with someone’s voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone’s voice. And the human voice in that sense is not electronically reproduced or amplified.”

Robert Pinsky (1940) American poet, editor, literary critic, academic.

Sleigh, Tom. "Robert Pinsky", ‘’BOMB Magazine’’ Summer, 1998. .
Other

“[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

Source: What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

“Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.”

Edward Hirsch (1950)

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

“I was seized with a strong desire to write poetry, so strong, in fact, that in imagination I thought I heard a voice crying in my ears –"Write! Write"I wondered what could be the matter with me, and I began to walk backwards and forwards in a great fit of excitement, saying to myself– "I know nothing about poetry."”

William McGonagall (1825–1902) weaver, actor, poet

"The Autobiography of Sir William Topaz McGonagall".
Other works

“Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin.”

Roland Barthes (1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist

“Writing is all about the preservation of your own voice.”

Gary Ross (1956) American film director

Dreams on Spec (2007)
Context: Writing is all about the preservation of your own voice. So if you give that voice away by guessing what you think and you think and you think as you go, you’ll have less to say and then it’ll go away completely!

“There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,
And wake from ignorance the Western World.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

The Tragedy of Irene (1749), Act IV, Sc. 1

“poetry, which is the voice of the soul's aspirations, has for it, of all the arts, the most natural and immediate appeal.”

Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927) American writer and poet

On poetry

“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: Letters Home

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