Best quotes by Donovan on Poetry

Checkout quotes by Donovan on Poetry

• ‟ When I met Bob Dylan, I was definitely impressed. This guy had come from the American folk world, but he was very schooled in poetry, too. He'd studied the Beat poets, of course. I grew up in the British bohemian scene. Dylan grew up in the American bohemian scene. So I was very pleased to meet such a guy.

  - Donovan
  

• ‟ In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture.

  - Donovan
  

• ‟ I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry, which came down through oral tradition.

  - Donovan
  

• ‟ I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was a kind of a poetic bohemian, and he read me poetry.

  - Donovan
  

• ‟ In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism.

  - Donovan