The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess?
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. - Ted Hughes
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.
- 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
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…
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
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…
The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old. - Ted Hughes
The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.
You are who you choose to be. - Ted Hughes
You are who you choose to be.
Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly. - Ted Hughes
Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.
Where white is black and black is white, I won. - Ted Hughes
Where white is black and black is white, I won.
The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living - Ted Hughes
The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living
What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. - Ted Hughes
What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.
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