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Andrew Motion Quotes

English - Poet | October 26, 1952 -

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

Want Write Poems Ever

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.

Interesting Environment Powerful Need

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

Myself Tea Write Two Starting Up

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.

Beautiful Imagination Person She Her

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.

Life Great Deep Connection Dream

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.

Me World Attention You Look Back

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

Heaven Place Ensuring

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.

Good Time People World Busy Trying

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.

Poetry Name You Want Kind Way

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.

Tree Day Me Birds Evening Back

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Football Poetry Now Kind Way Thanks

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.

Great Time Poetry Trying Way Events

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