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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

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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

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Poetry
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Andrew Motion
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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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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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Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world. – Ashley Judd

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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. – James Russell Lowell

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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. – Jack Prelutsky

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Our imagination just needs space. Its all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up. – Glen Hansard

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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because its such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. – Ellen DeGeneres

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Delay in vengeance delivers a heavier blow. – John Ford

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