Ted Hughes Quotes

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Ted Hughes was a renowned British poet, born on August 17, 1930, and passed away on October 28, 1998. His poetry is known for its unique style and profound emotional expression, and he is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.

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Famous Ted Hughes Quotes

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

World Long Horizon Heels Cages Thrust

Author:Ted Hughes

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

World Wells Voice Sun Woods Bubbles Pigeons Sun Rise Colourful

Author: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.”

World Hands Wind Dust Decay Worn Worn Out

Book:The Hawk in the Rain

Source: The Hawk in the Rain

“Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.”

World Way Giving Self Whole Form Opportunity Levels Meditation Ordinary Connections Deeper Fishing Communion Good Way Funny Fishing

Author:Ted Hughes

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

World Trying Body Pain Spirit Speak Voice Cases Poet Bottom Treatment Poetry Is Reconcile Physical Body

Book:Letters of Ted Hughes

Source: Letters of Ted Hughes

“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.”

People Thinking World Dies Streets Poet Lays Poetry Is Bullets Polish Realised Lifting Doorways

Author:Ted Hughes

“That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.”

People World Feels Children Remember Suffering Alive Worst Walking Ordinary Careful Monsters Naked Paradox Buried Shells Only Time Protective Armour Adaptive Walking Dead

Book:Letters of Ted Hughes

Source: Letters of Ted Hughes

About the Author

Born: August 17, 1930
Died: October 28, 1998
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 70

Books & Sources

Letters of Ted HughesRelated source material

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The Iron ManRelated source material

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Poetry in the Making: An AnthologyRelated source material

The Hawk in the RainRelated source material

A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected PoemsRelated source material

Collected Poems of Ted HughesRelated source material

Crow: From the Life and Songs of the CrowRelated source material

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