Ted Hughes Quotes

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• Where white is black and black is white, I won.
• The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How…
• Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.
• The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human…
• It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot.
• The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
• Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good…
• What happens in the heart simply happens.
• The wolf is living for the earth.
• What happened casually remains -
• Applause is the beginning of abuse
• You are who you choose to be.
• The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so…
• The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated.…
• He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will – That can be deformed,…
• Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,…
• The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost…
• One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his…
• I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars...
• You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

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