"In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry."
― Andrew Motion
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Poetry
― Andrew Motion
More From Andrew Motion
- "More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race."
- "Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow."
- "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 elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination."
More In Poetry
- "Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."― Edmund Clarence Stedman
- "However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies."― Eugenio Montale
- "I don’t like political poetry, and I don’t write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers."― Diane Wakoski