#ay

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#making #making up #other #statistics #telling

I've always put myself intensely into my work. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#i #intensely #into #myself #put

I like to play snooker, golf as well. ↗

— John Terry

#i #like #play #well

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#beauty #dark #every #mist #out

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

#big deal #both #conventional #deal #either

No, I love it at Chelsea. I've been here since I was 14, and I'm 28 now. All my friends are here, so I'm going to stay for ever unless Chelsea tell me I've got to go, which maybe one day they will, but for now I'm definitely staying. ↗

— John Terry

#chelsea #day #definitely #ever #friends

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#betray #i #me #moment #poem

I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#hesitation #i #poems #saying #sentimental

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#carry #dream #hope #i #i write