#Dont quit poems tv#

The poem, 'Don't Quit,' kept me going throughout my college years and I used to carry around a bookmark with it. So I found inspiration and motivation in the midst of writing about death. Coincidentally, (and I don't believe in coincidences) they are both inspirational poems. I suddenly found myself remembering my late father's favorite poems. Then a strange thing happened as I wrote my blog post on grieving and death. Now death is a pretty morbid topic and not much fun writing about but for some reason I was fixated on writing about it. Well in the midst of my self-pity party Michael Jackson and Steve McNair died and I found myself writing some hubs and blog posts on grieving and death. I found myself wondering if I should return to the more mundane world of economics and epidemiology (yes, strange as it may seem I am an artist who trained as an economist and epidemiologist). This past month was particularly difficult for me, it is not easy been an internet entrepreneur and artist. However, finding the motivation to keep plugging away in obscurity is another issue altogether. Fortunately for me I usually have no trouble finding inspiration for my writing and art. It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.ĭo you have a poem to submit to “The People’s Friend”? Click here for some advice.Inspiration and Motivation for Work and LifeĪs a writer and artist my work is mostly driven by inspiration. So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit – When we might have won had we stuck it out.ĭon’t give up though the pace seems slow – Life is strange with its twists and turns, When the funds are low but the debts are high,Īnd you want to smile but you have to sigh, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, You can hear Idris reading the inspiring poem here.īelow we’ve slightly abridged and adapted it. “He fitted in well with the liking for traditional themes of friendship, devotion, home and nature in the ‘Friend’.” “Appropriately known as ‘The People’s Poet’, he preferred to describe himself simply as ‘a newspaper man who wrote verses’. The majority offer a sentimental view of ordinary life. “Guest is estimated to have written over 11,000 poems during his career. “The poetry in the “Friend” in the Sixties was dominated, as in the late Fifties, by the poems of Edgar A Guest, a prolific writer of verse who was born in Birmingham in 1881 and later moved to Detroit in the USA with his family. Here’s a little bit about Edgar from the Fiction Special: Guest was a name that appeared time and again throughout our 1950s and 1960s issues. There’s a “Friend” connection, too! When we were in our Archive, collating poems and stories for our 150th Fiction Special, Edgar A. It’s a gentle reminder to us all that even the most trying of times will end, and there are sunnier skies ahead. Guest wrote the inspirational “Don’t Quit” in the 1920s. One morning recently, just before Breakfast News began at 6am, I heard Idris Elba reading a poem on the BBC.

#Dont quit poems tv#

I’m not usually much of a TV person, but like everyone else at the moment, I’ve been tuning in to see how things are developing with the coronavirus situation. It’s the best part of the day, my mum always says! I’m an early bird – usually up before six.

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