Ted Hughes Quotes - Page 2

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• He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.

  Ted Hughes

  Brain, Spats

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• Haven’t you heard of the music of the spheres?” asked the dragon. “It’s the music that space makes to itself. All the spirits inside all the stars are singing. I’m a star spirit. I sing too. The music of the spheres is what makes space so peaceful.

  Ted Hughes

  Stars, Dragons, Space

  Ted Hughes (2011). “The Iron Man”, p.39, Faber & Faber

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• This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

  Ted Hughes

  Eye, Night, Orange

  Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.37, Faber & Faber

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• The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

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  Voice, World, Woods

  1967 'Stealing Trout on a May Morning'.

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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

  Dark, Hot, Pages

  "The Thought-Fox" l. 21 (1957)

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• 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

  Feet, Body, Sophistry

  'Hawk Roosting' (1960)

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• One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas he'd mislaid and forgotten... There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish?

  Ted Hughes

  Spring, Ideas, Giving

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• But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently .

  Ted Hughes

  Stronger

  1970 'Examination at the Womb-door'.

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• The wolf is living for the earth.

  Ted Hughes

  Earth

  Ted Hughes (2014). “A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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• The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.

  Ted Hughes

  Instruments, Changed, Hooked

  Ted Hughes (1970). “Poetry is”

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• So we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.

  Ted Hughes

  Journey, Light, Rivers

  Ted Hughes (2012). “Collected Poems of Ted Hughes”, p.990, Faber & Faber

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• What happened casually remains -

  Ted Hughes

  Remains, Happened

  Ted Hughes (2009). “Birthday Letters”, p.69, Faber & Faber

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• Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.

  Ted Hughes

  Eye, Changed, Things Have Changed

  1960 'Hawk Roosting'.

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• The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.

  Ted Hughes

  Throat, Shocking, Pathetic

  1960 'View of a Pig'.

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• You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

  Ted Hughes

  Letters, Antiques, Talent

  Ted Hughes (2011). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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• The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.

  Ted Hughes

  Long, Horizon, World

  1957 'The Jaguar'.

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• You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.

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  Pain, Acceptance, Loss

  Ted Hughes (2011). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, p.512, Faber & Faber

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• I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.

  Ted Hughes

  Thinking, People, World

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• Applause is the beginning of abuse

  Ted Hughes

  Abuse, Applause

  Ted Hughes (2011). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, p.276, Faber & Faber

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• The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness.

  Ted Hughes

  Men, Iron, House

  Ted Hughes (2011). “The Iron Man”, p.6, Faber & Faber

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• I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dream Between my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.

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  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Ted Hughes (2014). “A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.

  Ted Hughes

  Sea, Sound, Shells

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• In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

  Ted Hughes

  Blue, Jewels, Pits

  Ted Hughes (1998). “Birthday letters”, Wheeler Pub Inc

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• 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.

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  Interesting, Attention, Born

  Ted Hughes (1975). “Season songs”, Viking Pr

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• Stilled legendary depth: It was as deep as England. It held Pike too immense to stir, so immense and old That past nightfall I dared not cast.

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  Past, Depth, Nightfall

  Ted Hughes (2010). “Lupercal”, p.52, Faber & Faber

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