#ch

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'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

#board #doing #go #good #i

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 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

#been #conversation #doing #every #feeling

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

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#argue #arising #before #capital #case

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

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#enough #extent #i #legal #live

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#believed #difficult #discovered #high #high school

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#bench #did #federal #get #i