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I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.

Author: Andrew Motion - English Poet
  Time , Like , Quiet , Phone , Bird


I'm not much given to making shamanistic remarks about all this, but I'm a great believer in the dream life. If I can carry without spilling whatever it is that drips into my head in the night to my desk, then that's valuable.

Author: Andrew Motion - English Poet
  Life , Great , Night , Dream


I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

Author: Andrew Motion - English Poet
  Way , Air , Despair , Scent


I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

Author: Andrew Motion - English Poet
  Me , Good , Poetry , Meeting


I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires.

Author: Andrew Motion - English Poet
  Life , Great , Dream , Deep


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.

Author: Andrew Motion - English Poet
  Me , Fear , Light , Hills


You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

Author: Andrew Motion - English Poet
  You , See , Inside , Mine


These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

Author: Andrew Motion - English Poet
  You , Know , Places , Now , Things


Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

Author: Andrew Motion - English Poet
  You , Family , Good , Tradition


But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

Author: Andrew Motion - English Poet
  Others , Admire , Poet , Above


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