Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
Edward James "Ted" Hughes, OMwas an English poet and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He served as Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth17 August 1930
dark hot pages
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.
looks administration participation
The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
police donne felony
And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.
dream sleep eye
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
stars dragons space
Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the spirits inside all the stars are singing. I’m a star spirit. I sing too. The music of the spheres is what makes space so peaceful.
long horizon world
The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.
instruments changed fangs
The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.
earth
The wolf is living for the earth.
pain voice trying
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.
remains happened
What happened casually remains -
jewels blue pits
In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.
addresses parcel
Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.
dreamer moments that-moment
The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it
stronger
But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently .