Ted Hughes - Earth Quotes

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There are certain things that are just impressive, aren't there? One stone can be impressive and the stones around it aren't. It's the same with animals. Some, for some reason, are strangely impressive. They just get into you in a strange way. Certain birds obviously have this extra quality that fascinates your attention. Obviously hawks have always done that for me, as a great many others have — not only impressive in themselves but also in that they've accumulated an enormous literature making them even more impressive. And crows too. Crows are the central bird in many mythologies. The crow is at every extreme, lives on every piece of land on earth, the most intelligent bird.

Ted Hughes

Even the most misfitting child
Who's chanced upon the library's worth,
Sits with the genius of the Earth
And turns the key to the whole world.

Ted Hughes

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

Ted Hughes

The rat is in the trap, it is in the trap,
And attacking heaven and earth with a mouthful of screeches like torn tin.

Ted Hughes