Ted Hughes - Dark Quotes

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With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox,
It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed.

Ted Hughes

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.

Ted Hughes

No, the serpent did not
Seduce Eve to the apple.
All that's simply
Corruption of the facts. Adam ate the apple.
Eve ate Adam.
The serpent ate Eve.
This is the dark intestine. The serpent, meanwhile,
Sleeps his meal off in Paradise—
Smiling to hear
God's querulous calling.

Ted Hughes

Cold, delicately as the dark snow,
A fox's nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now
Sets neat prints into the snow.

Ted Hughes