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Sir Andrew Motion is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. October 1952
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Famous Andrew Motion Quotes

“By day the appalling loose beauty
of prowling floes:
lions’ heads, dragons, crucifix-wrecks,
and a thing like a blown rose.”

Andrew Motion

Poem "Ice"
Poetry Quotes

“In the swirl of its pool
the home-coming salmon
has no intuition
of anything changed.”

Andrew Motion

"You Helped Give a Shape", An elegy on the death of HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Poetry Quotes

“Poets know their own poems in a way and to a depth that is unique.. even if they mumble a bit.. their delivery will still have important things to tell us.”

Andrew Motion

'TLS' November 25 2005

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