Quote by Andrew Motion
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to

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

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