Quotes by : Ted Hughes

The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain....

It is not enough to say the crow flies purposefully, or heavily, or rowingly, or whatever. There are....

Black was the without eyeBlack the within tongueBlack was the heartBlack the liver, black the lungsUnable....

The difficult thing is not to pick up the information but to recognise it - to accept it into our consciousness.....

There is the inner life, which is the world of final reality, the world of memory, emotion, imagination,....

Nobody wanted your dance,Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your flounderingDrowning life and your effort....

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of....

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

There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.

Keep your whole being on the thing you are turning into words. The minute you flinch, and take your mind....