Eliot Quote by Marguerite Young

T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the…

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given…

— James Frey

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

— Kenneth Koch

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

— Jack Prelutsky

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets,

— Anonymous

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and…

— Brandi Carlile

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

— Kenneth Koch

I'm really influenced by so many different things.

— Alex Winter

I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that…

— Hozier

You grow up with a lot of art and musicality within the Mormon church.

— Sophie Thatcher

I was kind of influenced by, for example, the meaning of words in songs, that's kind of my poetry that gives me a lot…

— Steve Wozniak

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

— Edward Albee