Andrew Motion Quotes & Sayings
44 most famous Andrew Motion quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.”
“I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.”
“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.”
“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.”
“But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.”
“I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.”
“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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