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....

I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have....

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....

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