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Ted Hughes Inspirational Quotes (30)
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The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
Ted Hughes
The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living
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The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
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Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me.
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Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast.
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What happened casually remains -
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What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.
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The wolf is living for the earth.
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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.
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The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.
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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.
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I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars.
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But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently .
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You are who you choose to be.
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The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.
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So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly - I kill where I please because it is all mine. There is no sophistry in my body: My manners are tearing off heads - The allotment of death.
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I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
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The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date A life subdued to its instrument.
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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.
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He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.
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Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.
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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.
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Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.
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