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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
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
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
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
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
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
Was what you wrapped around you.
Blood red. — Ted Hughes
Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.
— Ted Hughes
The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.
— Ted Hughes
Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.
— 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
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
About a star of deathless and painless peace
But no astronomer can find where it is. — Ted Hughes
Their homeopathic letters,
Envelopes full of carefully broken glass
To lodge behind your eyes so you would see — Ted Hughes
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
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
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
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
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