Back Quote by Tony Harrison

For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in…

— Tony Harrison

I am capable of bad taste - deliberately.

— Tony Harrison

I have always loved radio as a medium.

— Tony Harrison

Why shouldn't poetry address what happened yesterday and be published in the newspaper?

— Tony Harrison

I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry.

— Tony Harrison

“Smokers of the world unite! On t'count o' three, all light up, right? 1-2-3... You've all been cowed. I've changed the law and it's…

— Tony Harrison

A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who…

— Tony Harrison

I hate the anglicanisation of culture, the idea that culture is genteel. It's not genteel.

— Tony Harrison

Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.

— Tony Harrison

I think it's the tendency to want to create gods and monotheistic absolutes and absolute certainties that is the continual temptation in human thought…

— Tony Harrison

There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way you work.…

— Tony Harrison

I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of one and…

— Tony Harrison