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Andrew Motion Quotes

Andrew Motion quotes

English Poet October 26, 1952

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Andrew Motion quote: "your pain brand new no matter how long it lasts which now..."
...your pain brand new no matter how long it lasts which now means years... Andrew Motion
In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but..."
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet. Andrew Motion
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share. Andrew Motion
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal..."
I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know..."
These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.' Andrew Motion
When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it. Andrew Motion
Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and..."
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am. Andrew Motion
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a..."
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "I'm ensuring my place in heaven."
I'm ensuring my place in heaven. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others."
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion quote: "You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and..."
You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out. Andrew Motion

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