Best quotes by John Cooper Clarke on Poetry

Checkout quotes by John Cooper Clarke on Poetry

• ‟ I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

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• ‟ At the beginning, there was no chance I'd get published so I thought I'd give it a go live. I had to perform in rock band places and working men's clubs, where you wouldn't expect to find poetry. I ploughed a lonely furrow.

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• ‟ When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!

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• ‟ I went to what can only be described as a slum school in Salford - rough and full of trainee punks - but I was very lucky in that I had one inspiring teacher, John Malone, who gave the whole class an interest in romantic poetry.

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• ‟ Everybody that read one of my poems went off and wrote poetry. They said that about the Velvets, didn't they? They didn't sell many records, but everybody that saw them formed a band.

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• ‟ When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

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• ‟ I was pushing for a career in poetry and of course the received wisdom was that you would never make a living at it.

  - John Cooper Clarke