Quotes by : Ted Hughes

If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imaginings....

What I am going to propose is that you write a novel.As you know, the practical advantages of being able....

In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was....

I had let it all grow. I had supposed It was all OK. Your lifeWas a liner I voyaged in.Costly education....

And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register,....

I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting....

T.S. Eliot said to me 'There’s only one way a poet can develop his actual writing – apart from self-criticism....

That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms....

Wadsworth MoorWhere the millstone of skyGrinds light and shadow so purple-fineAnd has ground it so longGrinding....

The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldy enough, that they didn't invest enough heart,....