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In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hange

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

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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 theres room for difficult poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry wont be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice. – Andrew Motion

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I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. – Russell Baker

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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt

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