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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.

Andrew Motion

Beside the river, swerving under ground,
your future tracked you, snapping at your heels:
Diana, breathless, hunted by your own quick hounds.

Andrew Motion

For a million years one life simply turns into the next –
The spider hangs between driftwood and sea holly,
the sparrow hawk balances exactly over a shrew,
the hare sits bolt upright and urgent, all ears:
there is no reason why any of this should change.

Andrew Motion

The fact of the matter is that it is a difficult time in our history for white, straight, middle-aged, middle-class males.

Andrew Motion

I admit that I also yearn to leave my mark on society, and not see machines or people trample it foolishly.
On the one hand it's only shit; on the other, shit's shit, and what we desire in the world is less, not more, of it.

Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion

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Born: October 26, 1952 (age 72)

Bio: Sir Andrew Motion is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.

Known for:

Silver (2012)
Philip Larkin (1982)
In the Blood (2006)
Keats: A Biography (1998)
The invention of Dr. Cake (2003)

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