Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril - Andrew Motion
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
- 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 write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
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 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…
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
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…
Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels. - Andrew Motion
Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. - Andrew Motion
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary. - Andrew Motion
Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
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
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…
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
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…
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