Andrew Motion Quotes

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
Andrew Motion

Poetry, Live, Everything

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
Andrew Motion

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
Andrew Motion

Free, Big, Write

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
Andrew Motion

Others, Above, Admire

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
Andrew Motion

Fear, Light, Quite

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.
Andrew Motion

Moving, Direction, Seems

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
Andrew Motion

Life, Writing, Done

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
Andrew Motion

Beautiful, Person, Her

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
Andrew Motion

Time, Feelings, Rather

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
Andrew Motion

Two, Before, Write

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.
Andrew Motion

Life, Money, Finance

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
Andrew Motion

Time, Read, Whether

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
Andrew Motion

True, Try, Moment

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.
Andrew Motion

Young, Animal, Rhythm

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.
Andrew Motion

Emotional, Saying, Write

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 poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.
Andrew Motion

Time, Great, Poetry

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 of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.
Andrew Motion

Wish, Sense, Able

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
Andrew Motion

Time, Hope, Between

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, loves, losses, dreads and desires.
Andrew Motion

Life, Great, Deep

I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.
Andrew Motion

Time, Another, Quiet

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.
Andrew Motion

Place, Heaven, Ensuring

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 without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.
Andrew Motion

Life, Great, Dream

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
Andrew Motion

Good, Poetry, Saying

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.
Andrew Motion

Mind, Thought, Understand

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
Andrew Motion

Different, Found, Despair

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: October 26, 1952

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