Admire Quote by Andrew Motion Download Open image “But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.” — Andrew Motion ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Admire Poet Poetry Wordsworth
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I love Coleridge ... and I am very willing to allow that he has more imagination than Wordsworth, and more of thereal poet. But after all Coleridge is nothing more than an intellectual opium-eatera man of many crude though lovely thoughtsof confused though brilliant imagination, liable to much errorerror even of the heart, very sensual in many ofhis ideas of… — John Ruskin Copy Share
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share
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
Everyone will admire you when you do well. What a horrible thing to do to someone. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams? — Johanna Konta Copy Share Image
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself...… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion. — Steve Winwood Copy Share Image
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
