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I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires.
~ Andrew Motion
About
Also
Asleep
Believer
Connection
Deep
Desires
Dream
Dream Life
Fears
Great
Great Believer
Hopes
Life
Losses
Loves
Made
Our
Subconscious
While
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I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.
~ Andrew Motion
Another
Arriving
Because
Begin
Bird
Dragons
Early
Early Bird
Emails
Like
Partly
Phone
Quiet
Quiet Time
Ringing
Some
Sort
Starts
Time
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I'm ensuring my place in heaven.
~ Andrew Motion
Ensuring
Heaven
Place
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I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.
~ Andrew Motion
About
Believer
Carry
Desk
Dream
Dream Life
Given
Great
Great Believer
Head
I Can
Life
Making
Much
Night
Remarks
Then
Valuable
Whatever
Without
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I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
~ Andrew Motion
Archives
Board
Doing
Go
Good
Libraries
Makes
Me
Meeting
Museums
Pleasure
Poetry
Precisely
Really
Saying
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Thing
Want
Well
Write
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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 interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.
~ Andrew Motion
Among
Aware
Because
Destructive
Environment
Fragile
Interesting
Living
Members
More
Need
Other
Ourselves
Powerful
Quite
Species
Uniquely
Us
Vulnerable
Ways
Who
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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
General
Kind
Name
Poetry
Want
Way
You
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I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.
~ Andrew Motion
Always
Balance
Because
Between
Carefully
Chilly
Clue
Doing
Else
Get
Got
Knowingly
Knows
Maintained
Mind
Nobody
Nobody Else
Really
Side
Then
Thought
Too
Understand
Write
You
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Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.
~ Andrew Motion
About
Anybody
Better
Ever
He
His
Ideals
Keats
Own
Poems
Read
Says
Share
Than
Things
Wants
Writes
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Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.
~ Andrew Motion
Bad
Hell
Hell Is
Like
Long
Long Time
Lot
Paved
People
Road
Sequels
Thought
Time
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More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.
~ Andrew Motion
Any
History
Human
Human Race
More
More People
Now
People
Poetry
Race
Reading
Than
The History Of
Time
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Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well.
~ Andrew Motion
Centre
Doing
Emotionally
Enjoy
Intellectually
Just
Life
My Life
Other
People
Poetry
Speaking
Stuff
Those
Too
Well
Who
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Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. I suppose it's something to do with getting older and feeling I want to shed some of the things I've been doing for the last 20 years and go back to my roots.
~ Andrew Motion
Back
Been
Conversation
Doing
Every
Feeling
Getting
Getting Older
Go
Last
Much
Older
Pretty
Roots
Shed
Some
Something
Suppose
Things
Want
Weekend
Wife
Years
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Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree.
~ Andrew Motion
Back
Been
Being
Between
Birds
Came
Day
Evening
Far
Few
Had
Laureate
Like
Me
Much
Poems
Pretty
Stopped
Tree
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Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.
~ Andrew Motion
Been
Clubs
Football
Funding
Gigantic
Kind
Now
Partly
Perceived
Poems
Poetry
Poets
Schools
Shift
Thanks
Underground
Way
Zoo
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The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate.
~ Andrew Motion
Best
Bull
Gate
Go
Like
Necessarily
Poems
Public
Subject
Those
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There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time.
~ Andrew Motion
Busy
Examples
Good
Had
Lives
Out
People
Plenty
Same
Same Time
Time
Trying
Very
Well
Who
World
Written
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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.
~ Andrew Motion
Allow
Altogether
Association
Behind
Being
Conversations
Dismantle
Does
Doors
Else
Family
Good
Laureate
Miss
Nothing
Open
Open Doors
Poet
Poet Laureate
Poetry
Role
Royal
Royal Family
Say
Should
Thing
Those
Tradition
Trick
Way
Weight
Who
Would
You
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Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
~ Andrew Motion
Any
Badge
Big
Big Deal
Both
Conventional
Criticized
Deal
Either
Form
Free
Free Verse
Honour
Lot
Me
Modern
No Big Deal
Poem
Poems
Poet
Poets
Strict
Verse
Very
Ways
Well
Write
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When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.
~ Andrew Motion
Absolutely
Axiom
Be True
Believe
Feel
He
Keats
Means
Necessarily
Only
Our
Out
Philosophy
Poem
Proved
Saying
Says
Tells
True
Until
Us
Way
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