Monday, 31 August 2009

Andrew Motion - interview BBC World

Andrew Motion - ex poet laureate. What a wonderful man!

"A parent who does not teach his child the love for poetry, has failed"

about Rudyard Kipling, the interviewer asks him: "Didn't he say a poet should never become a paid civil servant?"
A.M; "well, he refused to become poet laureate, didn't he?"

(about the strength of simple language) "let a glass of water always taste like a glass of gin"