The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

- Ted Hughes

You are who you choose to be.

- Ted Hughes

And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate…

- Ted Hughes

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the…

- Ted Hughes

Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

- Ted Hughes

Where white is black and black is white, I won.

- Ted Hughes

The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living

- Ted Hughes

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.

- Ted Hughes

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

- Ted Hughes