107 Quotes by Ted Hughes

Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast.

With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.

But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently .

This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust.

The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.