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
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril — 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… — 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… — 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… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing,… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem… — 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
