# Lives of the Poets

- Author: [Michael Schmidt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-schmidt.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-schmidt/lives-of-the-poets

## Quotes

> A living poem can energise another poem at five hundred years distance, or across the other side of the world.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-schmidt/lives-of-the-poets/a-living-poem.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-schmidt/lives-of-the-poets/what-matters-in-poetry.md)

> Poetry is a language with a shape

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-schmidt/lives-of-the-poets/poetry-is-a-language.md)

> We read with our ears

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-schmidt/lives-of-the-poets/we-read-with.md)