Quote by Adrian Mitchell
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most pe

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. – Adrian Mitchell

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Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. – Adrian Mitchell

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I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rockn roll. – Adrian Mitchell

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Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. – Adrian Mitchell

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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W.H. Auden

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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and hes written poetry then let the verdict be that hes a poet. – Leonard Cohen

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The desert attracts the nomad, the ocean the sailor, the infinite the poet. – Author Unknown

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How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. – Allen Tate

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