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Andrew Motion Quotes

Andrew Motion quotes

English Poet October 26, 1952

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I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires. Andrew Motion
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money. Andrew Motion
I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable. Andrew Motion
Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back..."
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking..."
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. Andrew Motion
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow. Andrew Motion
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. Andrew Motion
There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time. Andrew Motion
I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over..."
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time. Andrew Motion
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. Andrew Motion
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the..."
The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the..."
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. Andrew Motion

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