Curated Quotations

Andrew Motion

Quotations

  • “More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.” -Andrew Motion

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  • “I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I’m likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.” -Andrew Motion

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  • “I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don’t make enough money.” -Andrew Motion

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  • “Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.” -Andrew Motion

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