“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.” BelieveHumansI BelieveVoiceLove IsWrittenCulminationHuman Voice Author:Robert Pinsky
“If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument.” IfsWellsReadingVoiceDifferencesWrittenPoetInstrumentsStaringSheetsHummingSheet Music Author:Robert Pinsky
“The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.” HumansBodySoundVoiceLinesAirShapesMouthsBoxesMediumsPoetry IsChestsComing OutHuman Body Author:Robert Pinsky
