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
When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair. — 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
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time. — 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
In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species… — 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
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
