Quotes by : Andrew Motion

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift....

I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's....

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but....

In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for....

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives....

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just....

... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which survive....

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being....