Andrew Motion Quotes

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. ...

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

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's ju...

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I hav...

... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which surviv...

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but...

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that ...

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archive...

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, fo...

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic s...

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's...