Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking — Andrew Motion
I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. — Andrew Motion
I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying. — Andrew Motion
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but — Andrew Motion
I wish I’d been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. — Andrew Motion
I’m also a great believer in the dream life; that while we’re asleep, a deep subconscious connection — Andrew Motion
The best public poems aren’t necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. — Andrew Motion
There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world — Andrew Motion
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there’s been a gigantic — Andrew Motion
These places, and the ancient things you know, you won’t know soon. I’m working on it now.’ — Andrew Motion
Those who say we should dismantle the role of poet laureate altogether, the trick they miss — Andrew Motion
Well, it’s a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticised by auberon waugh. — Andrew Motion
Well, it’s a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by auberon waugh. — Andrew Motion
When keats says: ‘axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses’ — Andrew Motion
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of ‘difficult’ poetry are over — Andrew Motion
You see the names of places roundabout? they’re mine now, and I’ve turned them inside out. — Andrew Motion
Pretty much every weekend, my wife and I have the shall-we-live-in-the-country conversation. — Andrew Motion
Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me. — Andrew Motion