T S Eliot. Ezra Pound, modern poets as they were then. But music was a strong influence on me and so was cinema. When I was young, Glasgow was a great cinema city, and you would see two or three films per week. Images as well as words influenced me.
Poetry can be intensely visual, but it also has a music to it.
I'm muttering it to myself, listening to its sound. It is interesting that audiences like to hear the voice of the poet performing his work. Rock has produced poetry. Look at Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen. It is a kind of poetry, not maybe the strongest or most serious, but a lot of people get pleasure from these performances who would never read poems.