Adrian Mitchell

“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.”

“When I am sad and weary, When I think all hope has gone, When I walk along High Holborn, I think of you with nothing on.”

“Tell me lies about Vietnam.”

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”

“My brain is a mass of trivialities and special skills.”

“Back in the stone age, I was a stone.”

“I'm not a pacifist. I'm a peaceful man, but that's not the same thing.”

“Poetry is a vitamin.”

“The arts should be not a luxury but a necessity.”

“My poetry is a coarse axe, a blunt axe, a rusty axe. That's what it is. And that's what it's for.”

“I'm a poet, a playwright, and a journalist. It's a bit of a cliché, but I've been a socialist since I was 15.”

“A poem can be a party.”

“You get a poem cause you waited for it.”

“I will not bomb you today. This is my first promise.”

“I was run over by the truth one day. Ever since the accident I've walked this way.”