Andrew Motion Quotes

• Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

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  Heart, Emotional, Forget

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• Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

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  Honor, Ordinary

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Interesting, Needs

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• I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

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  Dream, Writing, Way

  "Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

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  Wordsworth, Poet, Admire

  "Laureate and hardy". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2002.

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• I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

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  People, Feelings, Want

  "Laureate and hardy". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2002.

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• I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

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  Cielo

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Extraordinary Person, Imagination

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• Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

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  Long, People, Hell

  "Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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• While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

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  Rap, Should Have, Choices

  "Ode to a right royal charmer" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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

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  Writing, Hats, Bells

  "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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• Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.

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  Pain, Real, Alive

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• Me gusta comer fuera. Me gusta comprar cuadros bonitos y rodearme de cosas bonitas. Tengo que financiar esa vida. Apenas puedo permitirme un plan de pensiones porque no gano lo suficiente.

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  Beautiful, Buying, Painting

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• 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.

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  Writing, Way, Modern

  "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

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• I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

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  Moving, Want, Sympathetic

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• Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

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  Light, Flames, Tonight

  Andrew Motion (2010). “Selected Poems of Andrew Motion”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

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  Writing, Done, Way

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• 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.

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  Writing, Trying, Moments

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• I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

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  Islands, Firsts, Gone

  "Andrew Motion: 'The day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been very few and far between came back to me'". Interview With William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2012.

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

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  Writing, Two, Tea

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