I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.' — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
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,… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
