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"The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is...that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough."
~ Ted Hughes
#BOTD 1930
~ Ted Hughes
#BOTD 1930
Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1984."
Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath from 1956 until her death by suicide at the age of 30...His last poetic work, Birthday Letters (1998), explored their relationship. A poem, "Last Letter", describes his version of what happened during the 3 days before her death.
"What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life."
~ Ted Hughes
~ Ted Hughes
"...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously,as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it,touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic." Hughes
"...the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you."
~ Ted Hughes
~ 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
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
"Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely."
~ Ted Hughes
~ Ted Hughes
"That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. ...
But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster."
~ Ted Hughes
~ Ted Hughes
"Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed,turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation,some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self." ~ T. Hughes
"What happens in the heart simply happens."
~ Ted Hughes
~ Ted Hughes
"The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system."
~ Ted Hughes
~ Ted Hughes
"There is no better way to know us
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood."
~ Ted Hughes
Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood."
~ Ted Hughes
"One day God felt he ought to give his workshop a spring clean... It was amazing what ragged bits and pieces came from under his workbench as he swept. Beginnings of creatures, bits that looked useful but had seemed wrong, ideas he'd mislaid and forgotten...
There was even a tiny lump of sun. He scratched his head. What could be done with all this rubbish?"
~ Ted Hughes
~ Ted Hughes
"The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed,
And my head, worn out with love, at rest
In my hands, and my hands full of dust."
~ Ted Hughes
And my head, worn out with love, at rest
In my hands, and my hands full of dust."
~ Ted Hughes
"Do as you like with me.
I'm your parcel.
I have only our address on me.
Open me, or readdress me."
~ Ted Hughes
I'm your parcel.
I have only our address on me.
Open me, or readdress me."
~ Ted Hughes
"The deeps are cold:
In that darkness camaraderie does not hold:
Nothing touches but, clutching, devours."
~ Ted Hughes
In that darkness camaraderie does not hold:
Nothing touches but, clutching, devours."
~ Ted Hughes
"Show him every dawn and read to him endlessly."
~ Ted Hughes
~ Ted Hughes
"The brassy wood-pigeons
Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun
Rises upon a world well-tried and old."
~ Ted Hughes
Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun
Rises upon a world well-tried and old."
~ Ted Hughes
"But who is stronger than death? Me, evidently ."
~ Ted Hughes
~ Ted Hughes
