Quote by Andrew Motion
Im not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the ML

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

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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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To have great poets there must be great audiences too. – Walt Whitman

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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. – Edward Young

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

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