Ted Hughes Quotes

Nothing has changed since I began. My eye has permitted no change. I am going to keep things like this.

You were the jailer of your murderer— Which imprisoned you. And since I was your nurse and your protector Your sentence was mine too.

Only the rain never tires.

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.

But Oedipus he had the luck For when he hit the ground He bounced up like a jackinabox And knocked his Daddy down.

And he shivered with the horror of Creation.