Quotes by Ted Hughes

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.

Elephants

Forests

Stars

But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently .

Stronger

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

Addresses

Parcel

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.

Attention

Born

Interesting

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.

Dream

Eye

Sleep

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

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

Blue

Jewels

Pits

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

Creation

Feet

Sophistry

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

Changed

Eye

Things Have Changed

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?

Giving

Ideas

Spring

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Administration

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Blue

Born

Changed

Cold

Creation

Darkness

Doe

Dream

Dreamer

Earth

Elephants

Eye

Fear

Feet

Forests

Giving

Happened

Happens

Hate

Heart

Holes

Hooked

Hurt

Ideas

Inspiring

Instruments

Interesting

Jewels

Looks

Love

Moments

Night

One Day At A Time

Orange

Parcel

Participation

Pathetic

People

Pits

Reality

Regret

Remains

Running

Shocking

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Quotes by Ted Hughes

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.

But who is stronger than death? Me , evidently .

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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