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I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

~Andrew Motion

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More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

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When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: October 26th, 1952

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