For me, there is a paradox in poetry, which is like the paradox in tragedy. You have the most terrible subject, but it's in a form that is so sensually gratifying that it connects the surviving heart to the despairing intellect. Tony Harrison More Quotes by Tony Harrison More Quotes From Tony Harrison Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great. Tony Harrison scare becoming want My favorite memories were never about candy or anything like that. When I got to be a teenager, my friends and I used to get together and do all kinds of crazy stuff on Halloween night. We had a ball starting trouble. Now that I'm more mature I realize that wasn't the right way to act, but it was the time of my life back then. Tony Harrison halloween crazy memories I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot. Tony Harrison scary mom creative Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting. Tony Harrison articulation tongue fighting I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. Tony Harrison support-systems ghetto art The ones we choose to love become our anchorwhen the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays. Tony Harrison ties love-is blood I don't really have one type favorite type of candy. When I was younger we used to always go to the rich neighborhoods where they give out the big candy bars, not the little fun-sized ones. We'd go back two and three times, hit them again and again. They didn't care and we loved it. Tony Harrison fun giving two I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better. Tony Harrison cousin crazy believe I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry. Tony Harrison road alone poetry love A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it. Tony Harrison person meant-to-be inner-voice voice A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English teacher who wouldn't allow me to read poetry aloud. Tony Harrison me theatre poetry teacher I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity. Tony Harrison like chaos creative time Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry. Tony Harrison me family poetry speak I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life. Tony Harrison light darkness life death I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet. Tony Harrison need always poet wish I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote a poem on the abdication of King Charles III or about the sex life of the Royals... anybody who knew my work would know I'm not a contender. Tony Harrison king me work life I think that, as you get older, you want to be freer rather than more bound. Tony Harrison more think you want I think it's the tendency to want to create gods and monotheistic absolutes and absolute certainties that is the continual temptation in human thought - that's the great danger. Every time we create a god, we diminish humanity. Tony Harrison great humanity god time One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation. Tony Harrison language nature important attention I believe more in the power of drama than in the power of religion. Tony Harrison power drama believe religion
