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

Im 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

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Poetry
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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 dont make enough money. – Andrew Motion

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finance
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In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance. – David Garrick

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Imagination

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like The Grudge, I look in the corners of my room for the next two days. – Vanessa Hudgens

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Imagination

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. – Martha Gellhorn

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Imagination

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Imagination

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing. – Yiddish Proverb

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Friends

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Books

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. Thats how rich I want to be. – Rita Rudner

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respect

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. – James Connolly

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Society