Andrew Motion Writing Quotations

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.

But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.

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.

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.

I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.

I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.