Andrew Motion

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#hell #hell is #i #like #long

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

— Andrew Motion

#history #human #human race #more #more people

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

#doing #emotionally #enjoy #i #intellectually

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

#been #being #between #birds #came

The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#bull #gate #go #like #necessarily

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

#examples #good #had #lives #out

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.' ↗

— Andrew Motion

#i #know #now #places #soon

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#allowed #attention #back #being #hard

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#inside #mine #names #now #out