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I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.
— Andrew Motion
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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.
— Andrew Motion
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But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
— Andrew Motion
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I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
— Andrew Motion
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If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
— Andrew Motion
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Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.
— Andrew Motion
Tags: he, own, things, better
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