Andrew Motion
Poet
1952-10-26
Sir Andrew Motion is an English poet, novelist, and biographer who served as the UK Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009.
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Quotes by Andrew Motion
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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.
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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.
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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.
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I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
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I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.
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