Actors may (or may not) read poems well, but poets have unique rights to their work, and unique insights and interests to offer as we hear their idiom, pacing, tone and emphases.
"Sir Andrew Motion", Royal Society of Literature/FRSL is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, Sir Andrew became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Andrew Motion on Wikipedia.The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact.
Broodingly suggestive of Donne's intellectual figure as well as his witty sensuality, it is also a picture of great intrinsic beauty and the bewitching evocation of an age. The National Portrait Gallery is its natural home. The picture is cheap at the price, and if we don't buy it someone else will.
It is extremely desolating news that he should have died when he was only 68 and always seemed so much younger.
He was a man of immense charm, affability and kindness with no side to him.
This is a book written by someone obsessed, stricken and deeply loving. There is nothing like it in literature.
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