Quote by Andrew Motion
Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither t

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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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 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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Imagination
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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, theres been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived… Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. – Emile M. Cioran

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Fear

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie

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Fear

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Fear

The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When youre dealing with fear or laughter – emotions that happen spontaneously – you hope its working. But in the moment, you really have no idea. – Patrick Wilson

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Fear

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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. – Edward Gibbon

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Courage

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society. – Natan Sharansky

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Fear

You come to a point in your life when you really dont care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself. – Evel Knievel

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Life

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. – Henry Ford

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Failure