Ted Hughes

'Eliot says that the best thing a poet can do is read aloud poetry as much as he can. This should be sound. Silent reading only employs those parts of the brain that are used in vision. Not all the brain. This means that a silent reader's literary sense becomes detached from the motor parts and the audio parts of the brain which are used when reading aloud - tongue and ear. This means that only one third of the mental components are present in their writing or in their understanding of reading - one third emotional charge...' (letter to Sylvia Plath 1956)