Andrew Motion



Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist and biographer. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.

Quotes

 * Poets know their own poems in a way and to a depth that is unique.. even if they mumble a bit ..their delivery will still have important things to tell us.
 * 'TLS' November 25 2005

Poetry Quotes

 * In the swirl of its pool the home-coming salmon has no intuition of anything changed.
 * "You Helped Give a Shape", An elegy on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother


 * By day the appalling loose beauty of prowling floes: lions’ heads, dragons, crucifix-wrecks, and a thing like a blown rose.
 * Poem "Ice"