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“What happens in the heart, simply happens”

“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.”

Ted Hughes

“The dreamer in her
Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it.
That moment the dreamer in me
Fell in love with her and I knew it”

Ted Hughes Birthday Letters

Source: Birthday Letters

“You are who you choose to be.”

Ted Hughes book The Iron Man

Source: The Iron Man

“There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.”

Ted Hughes

“The Shell

The sea fills my ear
with sand and with fear.

You may wash out the sand,
but never the sound
of the ghost of the sea
that is haunting me.”

Ted Hughes

Source: The Mermaid's Purse: poems by Ted Hughes

“The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

Ted Hughes

“What happened casually remains”

Ted Hughes Birthday Letters

Source: Birthday Letters

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

Ted Hughes Birthday Letters

Source: Birthday Letters

“The wolf is living for the earth.”

Ted Hughes

“I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars…”

Ted Hughes

Source: Letters of Ted Hughes

“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.”

Ted Hughes

Source: Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose

“In the pit of red
You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness

But the jewel you lost was blue.”

Ted Hughes Birthday Letters

Source: Birthday Letters

“Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.”

Ted Hughes

Source: Letters of Ted Hughes

“The deeps are cold:
In that darkness camaraderie does not hold:
Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.”

Ted Hughes

"Relic"
Lupercal (1960)

“This house has been far out at sea all night,
The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills,
Winds stampeding the fields under the window
Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky
The hills had new places, and wind wielded
Blade-light, luminous black and emerald,
Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.”

Ted Hughes book The Hawk in the Rain

"Wind"
The Hawk in the Rain (1957)

“Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.
Who owns all of space? Death.”

Ted Hughes book Crow

"Examination at the Womb-door"
Crow (1970)

“The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel.
Over the cage floor the horizons come.”

Ted Hughes book The Hawk in the Rain

"The Jaguar"
The Hawk in the Rain (1957)

“The brassy wood-pigeons
Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun
Rises upon a world well-tried and old.”

Ted Hughes

"Stealing Trout on a May Morning"
Wodwo (1967)

“It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot.
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly –
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads –
The allotment of death.”

Ted Hughes

"Hawk Roosting", line 10
Lupercal (1960)