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Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.

Andrew Motion

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril.

Tags: emotion, hearts, motion, poetry

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About Andrew Motion

Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate 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, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson.