Winter Pollen Quotes

“I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.”
― Ted Hughes, Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose

“A simple tale, told at the right moment, transforms a person's life with the order its pattern brings to incoherent energies. (Myth and Education)”
― Ted Hughes, Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose