Ted Hughes - Death Quotes

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Ten years after your death
I meet on a page of your journal, as never before,
The shock of your joy.

Ted Hughes

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

The river is a god
Knee-deep among the reeds, watching men,
Or hung by the heels down at the door of a dam
It is a god, and inviolable.
And will wash itself of all deaths.

Ted Hughes

Death invented the phone it looks like the altar of death
Do not worship the telephone
It drags its worshippers into actual graves
With a variety of devices, through a variety of disguised voices

Ted Hughes

Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.
Who owns all of space? Death.

Ted Hughes

At that time
I had not understood
How the death hurtling to and fro
Inside your head, had to alight somewhere
And again somewhere, and had to be kept moving.
And had to be rested
Temporarily somewhere.

Ted Hughes

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.

Ted Hughes