Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

- Andrew Motion

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborat…

- Andrew Motion

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pen…

- Andrew Motion

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

- Andrew Motion

Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

- Andrew Motion

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

- Andrew Motion

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot…

- Andrew Motion

In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as inte…

- Andrew Motion

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

- Andrew Motion