Ted Hughes Quotes
In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I wa...
Show MoreWell, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all th...
Show MoreIf you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imagi...
Show MoreThe difference between a fairly interesting writer and a fascinating writer is that the fascinating ...
Show MoreThere is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make ...
Show MoreImagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you we...
Show MoreIt is not enough to say the crow flies purposefully, or heavily, or rowingly, or whatever. There are...
Show MoreSo we found the end of our journey.So we stood, alive in the river of light,Among the creatures of l...
Show MoreIf you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?"The dragon was sile...
Show MoreI think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting...
Show MoreWhat’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life...
Show MoreEvery single person is vulnerable to unexpected defeat in this inmost emotional self. At every momen...
Show MoreWadsworth MoorWhere the millstone of skyGrinds light and shadow so purple-fineAnd has ground it so l...
Show MoreIn those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign.
There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.
That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something o...
Show MoreThe inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain...
Show MoreThe only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldy enough, that they didn't invest enough h...
Show MoreRight from the start he is dressed in his best - his blacks and his whitesLittle Fauntleroy - quiffe...
Show MoreAnd that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register...
Show MoreHe could not stand. It was notThat he could not thrive, he was bornWith everything but the will –Tha...
Show MoreNobody wanted your dance,Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your flounderingDrowning life and your ...
Show MoreI had let it all grow. I had supposed It was all OK. Your lifeWas a liner I voyaged in.Costly educat...
Show MoreEven the most misfitting childWho's chanced upon the library's worth,Sits with the genius of the Ear...
Show MoreBlack was the without eyeBlack the within tongueBlack was the heartBlack the liver, black the lungsU...
Show MoreThat’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something o...
Show MoreT.S. Eliot said to me 'There’s only one way a poet can develop his actual writing – apart from self-...
Show MoreEverybody tries to protect this vulnerable two three four five six seven eight year old inside, and ...
Show MoreYou solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can som...
Show MoreThe only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears o...
Show MoreThe difficult thing is not to pick up the information but to recognise it - to accept it into our co...
Show MoreKeep your whole being on the thing you are turning into words. The minute you flinch, and take your ...
Show MoreWhat I am going to propose is that you write a novel.As you know, the practical advantages of being ...
Show MoreThere is the inner life, which is the world of final reality, the world of memory, emotion, imaginat...
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