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Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

~Andrew Motion

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I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.

~Andrew Motion

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I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's in the nature of commissioned work to be written too much from the side of your mind that knows what it's doing, which dries up the poetry.

~Andrew Motion

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Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

~Andrew Motion

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But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

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But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

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In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.

~Andrew Motion

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I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

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I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

~Andrew Motion

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When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

~Andrew Motion

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: October 26th, 1952

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