I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going… — 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, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you… — 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
