Ted Hughes Quotes (13 Quotes)


    Good metrical rhymed verse, if it's to grip the imagination and stay readable, has to have, as well as those external formal features, the same dynamo of hidden musical dramatic laws as the apparently free verse.

    Most writers of verse have several different personalities. The ideal is to find a style or a method that includes them all.

    Maybe making an extra mortgage payment -- that's a great idea.


    They think I should give them my mother's wordsTo fill the mouth of their monsterTheir Sylvia Suicide Doll.


    I wrote a letter to them saying, 'No, I don't want to collaborate,' and they kept coming back. Why would I want to be involved in moments of my childhood which I never want to return to I want nothing to do with this film. I will never, never in a million years go to see it.

    What happens in the heart simply happens.

    The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

    Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

    They fired all the workers and kept the management. We've been kept in the dark. We don't know what they're gone through to make this decision to get rid of us.

    I think the real fascination of fishing to me is certainly more than just fish. It's something to do with the whole world... of your reaction to, your response to water and things living in water, the fascination of flowing water and living things coming up out of it - to grab at you and be grabbed.

    It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

    What you're doing is giving the government an interest-free loan.


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