People Quote by Adrian Mitchell Download Open image “Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.” — Adrian Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Poetry
“Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.” — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.” — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“When I am sad and weary When I think all hope has gone When I walk along High Holborn I think of you with… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
