"The Iron Man came to the top of……" — Ted Hughes
"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 was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness."
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Ted Hughes
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35 Quotes by Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes has 35 quotes on this site.
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Where white is black and black is white, I won.
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Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.
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The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have…
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It took the whole of Creation to produce my foot, my each feather: now I hold Creation in my foot.
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The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back…
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What happens in the heart simply happens.
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The wolf is living for the earth.
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What happened casually remains -
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Applause is the beginning of abuse
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You are who you choose to be.
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The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain –…
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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing.…
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The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink…
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
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Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the…
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It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near…
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I love to live on the brink of eternity.
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If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not…
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For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves…
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During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will…
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