Logo
Quote by Andrew Motion
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend th

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

Other quotes by Andrew Motion

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

Category:
Poetry
Author
Andrew Motion
Read Quote

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

Category:
Fear
Author
Andrew Motion
Read Quote

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

Category:
Imagination
Author
Andrew Motion
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. – Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985

Category:
Poetry

In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyones existence in this world. – Wislawa Szymborska

Category:
Poetry

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. Im not saying Ive got the answers, just a of questions that I dont hear other artists asking. – Malcolm Wilson

Category:
Poetry

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. – Adrian Mitchell

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion. – Fernand Mery

Category:
Cats

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. – John B. Gough

Category:
Miscellaneous

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science. – Blaise Pascal

Category:
Knowledge

Life is a horizontal fall. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Life