I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. … - Andrew Motion

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You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.

Andrew Motion

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

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I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.

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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

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I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

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But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

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Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.

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