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Andrew Motion Quotes

Andrew Motion quotes about writing

English Poet October 26, 1952

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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
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'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. Andrew Motion
I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand. Andrew Motion
I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental. 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
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
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

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