"More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race."
-Andrew Motion
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"I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.“
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"I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry."
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"Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos."
-Andrew Motion
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"In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry."
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"I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well."
-Andrew Motion
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"Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who enjoy doing other stuff as well."
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"If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that."
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"I understand that finance can be very complex."
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"The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates."
-Pete McCloskey
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