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Poetry Quotes by Andrew Motion
- 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…
- In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry.
- 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…
- More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
- Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy…
More Poetry Quotes
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky
- If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been… — Rajneesh
- Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he… — Ani DiFranco