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

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

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: And you will never know what a battleI fought to keep the meaning of my wordsSolid with the world we were making.

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 quotes: Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.

Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.

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

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

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: 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)

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 quotes: The wolf is living for the earth.

The wolf is living for the earth.

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: So the self under the eye lies,Attendant and withdrawn.

So the self under the eye lies,
Attendant and withdrawn.

Ted Hughes quotes: Where white is black and black is white, I won.

Where white is black and black is white, I won.

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: 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.

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 quotes: But redWas what you wrapped around you.Blood red.

But red
Was what you wrapped around you.
Blood red.

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

Ted Hughes quotes: They only want to weepAs after the huge warsSenseless huge warsHuge senseless weeping.

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

Ted Hughes quotes: In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign.

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

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: Flowerlike, I loved nothing.from "Mayday on Holderness

Flowerlike, I loved nothing.

from "Mayday on Holderness

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: Applause is the beginning of abuse

Applause is the beginning of abuse

Ted Hughes quotes: Mary is an apple.Whoever plucks her Nails his heartTo the leafless tree.

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

Ted Hughes quotes: And the elephant sings deep in the forest-mazeAbout a star of deathless and painless peaceBut no astronomer can find where it is.

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 quotes: To hatch a crow, a black rainbowBent in emptinessover emptinessBut flying

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

Ted Hughes quotes: Their homeopathic letters, Envelopes full of carefully broken glassTo lodge behind your eyes so you would see

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

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: Some word - from before this translation

Some word - from before this translation

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: 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?

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

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 quotes: What happens in the heart, simply happens

What happens in the heart, simply happens

Ted Hughes quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Then everybody wept,Or sat, too exhausted to weep,Or lay, too hurt to weep.

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

Ted Hughes quotes: 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

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: You are who you choose to be.

You are who you choose to be.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: But the jewel you lost was blue.

But the jewel you lost was blue.

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

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

Ted Hughes quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Across clearings, an eye,A widening deepening greenness,Brilliantly, concentratedly,Coming about its own business.

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

Ted Hughes quotes: What happened casually remains -

What happened casually remains -

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

But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently .

Ted Hughes quotes: 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.

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.