Robert Adamson Quotes

• Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. That was a pretty ambitious plan I guess.

  Robert Adamson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publish, Writing, Poetry, Living, Book

• I don’t know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets – the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from.

  Robert Adamson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Established, Poets, Boring, Know

• Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he’s hardly ever mentioned.

  Robert Adamson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Poets

• He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really – to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn’t very encouraging because, well, they weren’t getting far were they?

  Robert Adamson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Confused, Park, Writing, Poets

• Well – I started writing – probably in the early 60s and by say ’65-’66 I had read most of the poetry that had been published – certainly in the 20 years prior to that.

  Robert Adamson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Published, Prior, Writing, Poetry

• It’s just that if you’re not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly – not so much the good things but the bland things – the ordinary things – the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

  Robert Adamson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bland, Presidency, Endlessly, Honors, Weaker, Suppressed, Things

• There’s one of my new poems actually – is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

  Robert Adamson

  Tags in River, Poems

Robert Adamson (7)

Birth:	19th January, 1852
Death:	8th February, 1902
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Philosopher, Professor

About

He was born in Kingsbarns in Fife. His father was a solicitor, and his mother was the daughter of Matthew Buist, factor to Lord Haddington. In 1855 Mrs. Adamson was left a widow with small means, and devoted herself entirely to the education of her six children. Of these, Robert was successful from the first.

Related Authors

• Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
• Maurice Blanchot
• Nicolai A Berdyaev
• William Kingdon Clifford
• Nelson Goodman
• Rufus Matthew Jones
• Xenophanes
• John Locke
• Theodore Zeldin
• Sissela Bok

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 2nd April

Births

• 1973 - Roselyn Sanchez
• 1946 - Sue Townsend
• 1940 - Penelope Keith
• 1807 - Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan
• 1862 - Nicholas Murray Butler

Deaths

• 1891 - Albert Pike
• 1865 - Richard Cobden
• 2005 - Pope John Paul II
• 2007 - George Sewell
• 1872 - Samuel Morse