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

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

And you will never know what a battle
I fought to keep the meaning of my words
Solid with the world we were making. — Ted Hughes

Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed. — Ted Hughes

We had sweated the labor, the pilgramige. Now we wanted the blessing. — Ted Hughes

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. — Ted Hughes

A simple tale, told at the right moment, transforms a person's life with the order its pattern brings to incoherent energies. (Myth and Education) — Ted Hughes

The wolf is living for the earth. — Ted Hughes

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad. — Ted Hughes

So the self under the eye lies,
Attendant and withdrawn. — Ted Hughes

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. — Ted Morgan

Where white is black and black is white, I won. — Ted Hughes

What's writing really about? It's about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. — Ted Hughes

Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly. — Ted Hughes

You were overloaded. I said nothing.
I said nothing. The stone man made soup.
The burning woman drank it. — Ted Hughes

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

But red
Was what you wrapped around you.
Blood red. — Ted Hughes

The sea cries with its meaningless voice,
Treating alike its dead and its living — Ted Hughes

Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly. — Ted Hughes

They only want to weep
As after the huge wars
Senseless huge wars
Huge senseless weeping. — Ted Hughes

In those days I coerced
Oracular assurance
In my favour out of every sign. — Ted Hughes

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system. — Ted Hughes

Flowerlike, I loved nothing.

from "Mayday on Holderness — Ted Hughes

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

There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood. — Ted Hughes

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

Applause is the beginning of abuse — Ted Hughes

Mary is an apple.
Whoever plucks her
Nails his heart
To the leafless tree. — Ted Hughes

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze
About a star of deathless and painless peace
But no astronomer can find where it is. — Ted Hughes

To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying — Ted Hughes

Their homeopathic letters,
Envelopes full of carefully broken glass
To lodge behind your eyes so you would see — Ted Hughes

The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours. — Ted Hughes

Some word - from before this translation — Ted Hughes

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. — Sylvia Plath

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne. — Ted Hughes

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars ... — Ted Hughes

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

The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess? — Ted Hughes

And if you don't accept my challenge," shouted the Iron Man, "then you're a miserable cowardly reptile, not fit to bother with. — Ted Hughes

What happens in the heart, simply happens — Ted Hughes

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

Then everybody wept,
Or sat, too exhausted to weep,
Or lay, too hurt to weep. — Ted Hughes

The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it — Ted Hughes

You are who you choose to be. — Ted Hughes

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

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely. — Ted Hughes

When I came to consciousness my whole interest was in wild animals. — Ted Hughes

The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic. — Ted Hughes

But the jewel you lost was blue. — Ted Hughes

Do as you like with me. I'm your parcel. I have only our address on me. Open me, or readdress me. — Ted Hughes

The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed,
And my head, worn out with love, at rest
In my hands, and my hands full of dust. — Ted Hughes

Across clearings, an eye,
A widening deepening greenness,
Brilliantly, concentratedly,
Coming about its own business. — Ted Hughes

What happened casually remains - — Ted Hughes

But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently . — Ted Hughes

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. — Ted Hughes