“Compose aloud: poetry is a sound.”
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“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.
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
“Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) American musician, poet
Preface to The Science of English Verse 1880
“Poetry is what looks like poetry, what sounds like poetry. It is metrical composition.”
J. V. Cunningham (1911–1985) American writer
'Poetry, Structure and Tradition' Dec 31 1939
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Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
"The Poet With His Face in His Hands"
New and Selected Poems, Volume 2 (2005)
“Sound poetry is a fusion of music and literature.”
Dick Higgins (1938–1998) English composer and poet
The Origin of Happenings (1976)
Variant: Concrete poetry is a fusion of visual art and poetry.
Yvor Winters (1900–1968) American poet and literary critic
The Audible Reading of Poetry (1951)
“I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator