Michael Schmidt
Quotes
A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance, or across the other side of the world.
What matters in poetry is form, how words work together, the sounds and silences their combinations make. The ordered effects they produce on the attentive hearer.
Poetry is a language with a shape
We read with our ears
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