-
Next Quote
He could not stand. It was not
That he could not thrive he was born
With everything but the will
That can be deformed just like a limb.
Death was more interesting to him.
Life could not get his attention.
- Ted Hughes -
Previous Quote
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.
- Ted Hughes -