#ay

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

#balance #because #between #bollocks #carefully

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

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

#badge #big #big deal #both #conventional

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

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#away #black #blacks #colleges #doing

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#day #every #every day #go #grew

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#civil #civil disobedience #claims #consciously #disobedience

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#because #been #city #cosmopolitan #creole

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#largely #majority #question #race #silent

Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves. ↗

— John Motson

#good #like #pitch #playing #round