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Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

I gave my voice to poetry.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem.