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.
If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

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Unknown
The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.
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Lisa Kleypas
I want you. I want you so badly I can’t stand it. When you left, it felt like the world got darker. Like I couldn’t truly see anything. Couldn’t feel anything.
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Rachel Vincent
Lift your hips for me, love.
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Tahereh Mafi
When you want something this badly, you don't just give up. You fight and fight until you absolutely can't fight anymore.
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Gail McHugh
More Quotes By Andrew Motion
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.
... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which survive us, and which are then thrown back into the common stock from which they are soon gathered again and ascribed other roles in other circumstances.
Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to...
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.
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
