"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."

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Source : "Ode to a right royal charmer". Interview With Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2000.

Andrew Motion

#Writing Quotes #Way Quotes #Modern Quotes

“What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].”
“It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.”
“I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things . . . which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising”
“There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by his assistance. ... He is indeed a man born for the good of mankind, and for the honour of his country. ... So I may thank God, that Dr. Wilkins was an Englishman, for wherever he had lived, there had been the chief seat of generous knowledge and true philosophy.”
“Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.”
“My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.”
“Surrender. That's an interesting term. We tend to see all forms of surrender as negative--war, sports, highway on-ramps. You'd never hear us describing a relationship as a type of surrender. But maybe we should. Is it wrong to cede the solo to the duet. Surrender doesn't mean you lose, only that you no longer wish to fight.”

Source : Franz Wisner (2009). “How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom”, p.74, Macmillan
“If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.”

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