I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. 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 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 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 me you poetry heart 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
