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Top 15 Andrew Motion Quotes (2025 Update)

Andrew Motion Quote: “Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.”

1. “Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.”

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Andrew Motion Quote: “I’m ensuring my place in heaven.”

3. “I’m ensuring my place in heaven.”

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Andrew Motion Quote: “Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.”

4. “Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.”

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Andrew Motion Quote: “I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.”

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

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Andrew Motion Quote: “I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.”

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

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in – towards a more mainland-European model – is one I would feel sympathetic about.”

8. “I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in – towards a more mainland-European model – is one I would feel sympathetic about.”

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Andrew Motion Quote: “Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.”

9. “Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.”

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.”

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

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.”

11. “Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.”

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “I don’t want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people’s feelings a lot of the time.”

12. “I don’t want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people’s feelings a lot of the time.”

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.”

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

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Andrew Motion Quote: “But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.”

16. “But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.”

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don’t make enough money.”

17. “I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don’t make enough money.”

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn’t betray things that are true to me as a poet.”

18. “I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn’t betray things that are true to me as a poet.”

— Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion Quote: “But I can’t and don’t ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.”

19. “But I can’t and don’t ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.”

— Andrew Motion

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