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Poetry Quotes by Adrian Mitchell
- Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.
- 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.
- Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
- The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political one,…
- Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.
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- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh
- Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he… — Ani DiFranco