Andrew Motion quotes
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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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“Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.”
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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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“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.”
-- Andrew MotionSource : "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 like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.”
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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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“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.”
-- Andrew MotionSource : "Laureate and hardy". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2002.
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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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“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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“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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“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.”
-- Andrew MotionSource : Andrew Motion (2010). “Selected Poems of Andrew Motion”, p.16, Faber & Faber
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“But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.”
-- Andrew MotionSource : "Laureate and hardy". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2002.
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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.”
-- Andrew MotionSource : "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With 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.”
-- Andrew MotionSource : "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.
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“Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril”
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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.”
-- Andrew Motion
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