107 Quotes by Ted Hughes

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.

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.

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.

As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe. It is one of the most exciting things in modern poetry, to watch this journey being made.

The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.

In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.

The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.

So we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.