Ted Hughes Quotes


What happens in the heart simply happens. Ted Hughes Happens 39
He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive he was born With everything but the will That can be deformed just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention. Ted Hughes Suicide 33
The inmost spirit of poetry in other words is at bottom in every recorded case the voice of pain and the physical body so to speak of poetry is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world. Ted Hughes Pain 31
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. Ted Hughes Dancing 30
There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves come separately to a wood. Ted Hughes Relationship 27
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Ted Hughes Creation 26

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