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
apparently dramatic external formal free good grip hidden imagination laws musical stay
Good metrical rhymed verse, if it's to grip the imagination and stay readable, has to have, as well as those external formal features, the same dynamo of hidden musical dramatic laws as the apparently free verse.
certainly coming fishing flowing grab living reaction response water
I think the real fascination of fishing to me is certainly more than just fish. It's something to do with the whole world... of your reaction to, your response to water and things living in water, the fascination of flowing water and living things coming up out of it - to grab at you and be grabbed.
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They fired all the workers and kept the management. We've been kept in the dark. We don't know what they're gone through to make this decision to get rid of us.
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Maybe making an extra mortgage payment -- that's a great idea.
childhood coming involved kept letter million moments return wrote
I wrote a letter to them saying, 'No, I don't want to collaborate,' and they kept coming back. Why would I want to be involved in moments of my childhood which I never want to return to? I want nothing to do with this film. I will never, never in a million years go to see it.
writing thinking smell
...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.
writing reality trying
What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.
voice world woods
The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.
opportunity self fishing
Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
stars names tree
I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars...
healing etcetera narrative
Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.
hands wind dust
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.
brain spats
He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.
dawn shows
Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.