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Andrew Motion
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Andrew Motion

“But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.”

- Andrew Motion

Source/Notes: Interview by Euan Ferguson published in: The Observer, 23 July 2000: "Ode to a right royal charmer"
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Andrew Motion

“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

Source/Notes: Interview by Euan Ferguson published in: The Observer, 23 July 2000: "Ode to a right royal charmer"
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Andrew Motion

“But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.”

- Andrew Motion

Source/Notes: Interview by Robert McCrum, The Observer, 15 September 2002: "Laureate and hardy"
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Andrew Motion

“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

Source/Notes: Leaving Belfast, for Craig Raine
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“I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.”

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“I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.”

- Andrew Motion

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Andrew Motion

“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.”

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“I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.”

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“I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.”

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Andrew Motion

“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.”

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“I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.”

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“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.”

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“I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.”

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“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

Source/Notes: Interview by Robert McCrum, The Observer, 15 September 2002: "Laureate and hardy"
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