Quote by Bruce Cockburn
Id always loved poetry and Id always loved writing music and compo

Id always loved poetry and Id always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadnt thought of putting the two together until around that time. – Bruce Cockburn

Other quotes by Bruce Cockburn

I like to think that if it hadnt gone as well as it has, if I wasnt able to make a living off of playing music, I would still be playing the music. But, of course, I wouldnt likely have had the opportunity to travel, and a lot of the places have inspired songs. – Bruce Cockburn

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The second half of the 60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me. – Bruce Cockburn

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Learning
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I woke up one morning with this song in my head, and the opening line of the song is, My name was Richard Nixon, only now Im a girl. – Bruce Cockburn

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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. – Seamus Heaney

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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. – A. R. Ammons

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You dont help people in your poems. Ive been trying to help people all my life – thats my trouble. – Charles Olson

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