Collected Meditations
Showing 5 quotesI 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
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.— John Cooper Clarke
I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.— John Cooper Clarke
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Poetry
If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.— John Cooper Clarke
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Inspirational