Quote by Andrew Motion
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for

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

Other quotes by Andrew Motion

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking – its just that Im one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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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

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Fear
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Imagination
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With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour. – Theodore Gericault

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Imagination

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. – George Berkeley

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Imagination

We can live with lots of things, but we cant live without imagination, we cant live without hope. – Ariel Dorfman

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Imagination

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? – Ernst Toller

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Imagination

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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it. – Benjamin Franklin

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good

Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart. – Author Unknown

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Mothers

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older. – Marla Gibbs

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mom

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats the time to do something about it, not when its around your neck. – Chinua Achebe

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Time