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Tony Harrison Quotes

English - Poet | April 30, 1937 -

'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.

Age Night Impossible Go Mail Steam

I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.

Time Creative Chaos Kind Serendipity

You can make poems out of anger as well as tenderness. You can make poetry out of anything. It can be the ugliest of emotions. It doesn't have to be sweetness and light.

Light Anger Poetry You Emotions Out

I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry.

Love Alone Poetry Being Alone Road

I'd rather climb Everest than go for a walk in the park.

Walk Climb Go Everest Park Rather

A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.

Voice Person Meant To Be Poem Who

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect.

Heart Poetry Me You Tragedy Paradox

Yes, I've got inwardness and tenderness, but I also get angry and vituperative, and you have to honour that as well.

Angry You Yes Got Well Get

You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I sold about five copies; now kids study them for A level. Wanting to be successful in that other world of money or fame is not interesting. Poetry isn't like that, and it never has been.

Success Money Poetry World You Fame

I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.

Wish Become Need Always Poet Public

I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote a poem on the abdication of King Charles III or about the sex life of the Royals... anybody who knew my work would know I'm not a contender.

Life Work King Me Sex Possible

I think that, as you get older, you want to be freer rather than more bound.

Think You Want More Get Older

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