Quotes About Ted Hughes

I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

There is no one more deserving of a place in Poets' Corner. Ted Hughes introduced a new kind of landscape into English poetry. The most compelling aspect of his work was his intimacy with nature.

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

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

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

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

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

In writing these poems about relatives, I found it almost impossible to write about the mother. I was stuck. My feelings about my mother, you see, must be too complicated to easily flow into words.

Flowerlike, I loved nothing. from Mayday on Holderness

In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign.

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