- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that, because my experience seems to be so much different than what I'm told, so much of the time.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree.
- Nov 07, 2020
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had a pound for every former editor who hadn't cut the mustard advising me what to do, I'd be a very rich man.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I left the 'Sunday Times' there has been a group of scribes waiting for me to fall on my face, and having a go at my commercial record, looking to pick holes in it.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020