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

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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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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 think poetry is best read to oneself. – Rickie Lee Jones

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Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of mans expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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Im not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent – you cant just do it like that. – Samantha Morton

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What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. – Stephen Greenblatt

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