14 Quotes by Ted Hughes about Poetry

  • Author Ted Hughes
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    They only want to weepAs after the huge warsSenseless huge warsHuge senseless weeping.

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    And at that very moment, the smile arrivedAnd the crowd, shoving to get a glimpse of a man's soulStripped to its last shame,Met this smileThat rose through his torn rootsTouching his lips, altering his eyesAnd for a momentMending everythingBefore it swept out and away across the earth.

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  • Author Ted Hughes
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    The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

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