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Tony Harrison Quotes

English - Poet | April 30, 1937 -

I hate everything about writing except doing it.

Hate Writing Doing Everything Except

The ear will surrender even at those times when the eye wants to close, when the eye doesn't want to watch.

Eye Surrender Want Will Watch Even

I am capable of bad taste - deliberately.

I Am Bad Capable Taste Deliberately

I have always loved radio as a medium.

Loved Always Radio Medium

Of course you have to provide for the vulnerable and the children, but also, the vulnerable and the children need art in some form or another. You need spiritual experiences that, I think, forms of art give best.

Children Art Best Spiritual Think

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

Person Who Much Himself About Sort

I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary pages! Whereas everybody looks at the news section.

People Think Looks News Belong Much

Why shouldn't poetry address what happened yesterday and be published in the newspaper?

Poetry Yesterday Why Newspaper

The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch TV and reminds me of the grave and committed role of the poet. Although he was blind, Milton had one of the most unswerving gazes of all English poets.

Me Blind You First See Poet

The Greek tragic mask is one of my main metaphors for the role of the poet. The eyes of the tragic mask are always open to witness even the worst, and the mouth is always open to make poetry from it. Neither ever close.

Eyes Poetry Mask Mouth Worst Open

I often find myself quoting from Victor Hugo after one of my theatrical ventures. 'Now that my play is a failure,' he once said, 'I find I love it all the more.' I first quoted that after 'Square Rounds' at the Olivier in 1992.

Love Failure Myself Find Play Said

Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make a point of seeking them out and have used them as mouthpieces in my film poetry, as with Heinrich Heine in 'The Gaze of the Gorgon.'

Culture Poetry Test Try Out Gaze

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