"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."
― Adrian Mitchell
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Poetry
― Adrian Mitchell
More From Adrian Mitchell
- "Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry."
- "Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative."
- "Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
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- "Poetry should… should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."― John Keats
- "It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found – indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese."― Lafcadio Hearn