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
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.
eye night light
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.
love two woods
There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.
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.
feet body sophistry
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death.
poetry police progress
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.
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
abuse applause
Applause is the beginning of abuse
stronger
But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently .