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More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history

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

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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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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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Imagination
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Andrew Motion
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Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking – its just that Im one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well. – Andrew Motion

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Poetry
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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. – Author Unknown

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Poetry

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

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Poetry

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us. – Tracy K. Smith

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Poetry

Well, if this is poetry, Im certainly never going to write any myself. – James Schuyler

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Poetry

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