"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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Source : "Laureate and hardy". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2002.

Andrew Motion

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Sentimental Quotes

“I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.”
“It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.”
“I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.”
“In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there.”
“Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.”
“Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.”
“At this very moment, Godâ€™s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!”

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