Idlers Quote by Tom Hodgkinson Download Open image “All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.” — Tom Hodgkinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idlers Poet Poetry
Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By taking out a loan, I am committing myself to years of interest repayments, and therefore to years of wage slavery. And the UK… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or Oscar Wilde,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
When stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work. — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to grow; my… — Dominique Fernandez Copy Share Image
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