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Ted Hughes quotes

English Poet August 16, 1930 – October 28, 1998

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Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the spirits inside all the stars are singing. I’m a star spirit. I sing too. The music of the spheres is what makes space so peaceful. Ted Hughes
One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas he'd mislaid and forgotten... There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish? Ted Hughes
...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic. Ted Hughes
You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses. Ted Hughes
You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove. Ted Hughes
The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain? and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world. Ted Hughes
And maybe a ghost, trying to hear your words,/ Peered from the broken mullions/ And was stilled. Or was suddenly aflame/ With the scorch of doubled envy. Only/ Gradually quenched in understanding. Ted Hughes
The ShellThe sea fills my earwith sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the soundof the ghost of the seathat is haunting me. Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes quote: "Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly."
Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly. Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes quote: "In the pit of red. You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness. But..."
In the pit of red. You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness. But the jewel you lost was blue. Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes quote: "I shal also take you forth and carve our names together in a..."
I shal also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars... Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes quote: "The wolf is living for the earth."
The wolf is living for the earth. Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes quote: "What happens in the heart simply happens."
What happens in the heart simply happens. Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes quote: "Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our..."
Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me. Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes quote: "The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public..."
The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad. Ted Hughes

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