Andrew Motion Quotes

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out. - Andrew Motion

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. - Andrew Motion

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it. - Andrew Motion

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. - Andrew Motion

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. 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 Motion

This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in literature. - Andrew Motion

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.' - Andrew Motion

There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time. - Andrew Motion

The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact. - Andrew Motion

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