--- title: "3 Kenneth Slessor Quotes - Famous Journalist" description: "Australian poet and journalist (1901-1971)... | Kenneth Adolphe Slessor was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War I..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b151/author-kenneth-slessor-79550.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Kenneth Slessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b151/author-kenneth-slessor-79550.jpg) # Kenneth Slessor (1901–1971) Journalist **3** quotes in **10** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Kenneth Slessor was a journalist. ## Quick Facts About Kenneth Slessor Born March 27, 1901 Died June 30, 1971 Profession Journalist ## About Kenneth Slessor Australian poet and journalist (1901-1971)... \| Kenneth Adolphe Slessor was an Australian poet, journalist and official war correspondent in World War II. He was one of Australia's leading poets, notable particularly for the absorption of modernist influences into Australian poetry. The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him. ## Quotes by Kenneth Slessor > [Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-slessor/writing-poetry-is-a-pleasure-a-pleasure-out-of-hell/) [Kenneth Slessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-slessor/) [Hell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56f/kenneth-slessor-79550_hell_writing-poetry-is-a-pleasure-a-pleasure_249361.png) > [Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not my Time,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-slessor/time-that-is-moved-by-little-fidget-wheels-is-not-my-time/) [Kenneth Slessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-slessor/) [Great saying by great authors](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/great-saying-by-great-authors/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/435/kenneth-slessor-79550_great-saying-by-grea_time-that-is-moved-by-little-fidget-whee_315843.png) > [“Cook was a captain of the powder-days When captains, you might have said, if you had been Fixed by their glittering stare,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-slessor/cook-was-a-captain-of-the-powder-days-when-captains-you-might-have/) [Kenneth Slessor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-slessor/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/272/kenneth-slessor-79550_books_cook-was-a-captain-of-the-powder-days-wh_2244156.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-slessor/#itemlist", "name": "Kenneth Slessor Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kenneth Slessor" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-slessor/writing-poetry-is-a-pleasure-a-pleasure-out-of-hell/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56f/kenneth-slessor-79550_hell_writing-poetry-is-a-pleasure-a-pleasure_249361.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56f/kenneth-slessor-79550_hell_writing-poetry-is-a-pleasure-a-pleasure_249361.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56f/kenneth-slessor-79550_hell_writing-poetry-is-a-pleasure-a-pleasure_249361.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell” — Kenneth Slessor", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not my Time,", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kenneth Slessor" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-slessor/time-that-is-moved-by-little-fidget-wheels-is-not-my-time/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/435/kenneth-slessor-79550_great-saying-by-grea_time-that-is-moved-by-little-fidget-whee_315843.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/435/kenneth-slessor-79550_great-saying-by-grea_time-that-is-moved-by-little-fidget-whee_315843.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/435/kenneth-slessor-79550_great-saying-by-grea_time-that-is-moved-by-little-fidget-whee_315843.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not my Time,” — Kenneth Slessor", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Cook was a captain of the powder-days When captains, you might have said, if you had been Fixed by their glittering stare, half-down the side, Or gaping at them up companionways, Were more like warlocks than a humble man— And men were humble then who gazed at them, Poor horn-eyed sailors, bullied by devils' fists Of wind or water, or the want of both, Childlike and trusting, filled with eager trust— Cook was a captain of the sailing days When sea-captains were kings like this, Those captains drove their ships By their own blood, no laws of schoolbook steam, Till yards were sprung, and masts went overboard— Daemons in periwigs, doling magic out, Who read fair alphabets in stars Where humbler men found but a mess of sparks, Who steered their crews by mysteries And strange, half-dreadful sortilege with books, Used medicines that only gods could know The sense of, but sailors drank In simple faith. 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