“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.”

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

“I told them," he said in a clear, carrying voice, "that they should not give someone as old and powerful as I a daughter to love. That it would end badly.”

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”

“I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself…”

“A voice or a song can be so comforting to someone who really needs it.”

“I will continue to use my voice. I believed from the beginning that [the lawsuit] was an attempt to muzzle my voice, and I come from a people who have struggled and died in order to have a voice in this country. And I refused to be muzzled.”

“He became my confidante, someone with whom I could share thoughts I could never voice… In exchange, he trusted me with his.”

“In defiance of other judges I have faith in your voice. Voice of your common sense. Give this job up. Thank you very much”

“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.”