Sir Andrew Motion, Britain's poet laureate from 1999 to 2009, gives the BBC his Top 10 tips for being a successful poet.
(Washing your hair is part of it.)
(Washing your hair is part of it.)
"I never quite believe it when poets say that they're not writing out of their own feelings, and when that is the case, I tend not to be terribly interested in what they're doing.
I don't mean to say that they are writing bad poems, but those aren't the poems that I like most. The poems I most like are where the engine is a very emotional one, where the warmth of strong feeling is very powerfully present in the thing that is being given to us. I think poetry is a rather emotional form and when it isn't that, I'm not very interested in it."
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