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HAPPY 95th BIRTHDAY Ted Hughes! RIP!
Edward James Hughes
(17 August 1930, Mytholmroyd, England – 28 October 1998, London, England)
"And that in such a misery, all the beasts of love
Laugh themselves mad against the moon and we must defend our life."
―Ted Hughes, from "Song of the Sorry Lovers", in Early Poems and Juvenilia (1946-57) // Collected Poems of Ted Hughes, 2003
Photo: Ted Hughes in 1960, Primrose Hill, London by John Hedgecoe
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HAPPY 91st BIRTHDAY Ted Hughes! RIP!
(17 August 1930 - 28 October 1998)
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In case you are wondering, Hughes is the author of The Iron Giant, the children’s book that has been adapted into the 1999 animation movie with the same title (The Iron Giant) featuring the famous quote: “You are who you choose to be. “ (although the quote does not come from the book).
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing really counts at all.
Ted Hughes
Day 19 of #101smiles - #getcarter, my favourite #britishfilm of all time and quite possibly my favourite #gangstermovie of all time too. #jmoloves #michaelcaine #jackcarter #jacksreturnhome #tedhughes #gangster #warnerbros #mod #art #drawing #illustration #digitalart #adobeillustrator #adobedraw #comicart #comicdrawing #instagood #instaart #artstagram #chrismassoncreates #artistsoninstagram #glasgowartist #britishcinema https://www.instagram.com/p/B8kv4ZXhNjV/?igshid=1f7j5a37jcxza
Love song
He loved her and she loved him.
His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to
He had no other appetite
She bit him she gnawed him she sucked
She wanted him complete inside her
Safe and sure forever and ever
Their little cries fluttered into the curtains
Her eyes wanted nothing to get away
Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows
He gripped her hard so that life
Should not drag her from that moment
He wanted all future to cease
He wanted to topple with his arms round her
Off that moment's brink and into nothing
Or everlasting or whatever there was
Her embrace was an immense press
To print him into her bones
His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace
Where the real world would never come
Her smiles were spider bites
So he would lie still till she felt hungry
His words were occupying armies
Her laughs were an assassin's attempts
His looks were bullets daggers of revenge
His glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets
His whispers were whips and jackboots
Her kisses were lawyers steadily writing
His caresses were the last hooks of a castaway
Her love-tricks were the grinding of locks
And their deep cries crawled over the floors
Like an animal dragging a great trap
His promises were the surgeon's gag
Her promises took the top off his skull
She would get a brooch made of it
His vows pulled out all her sinews
He showed her how to make a love-knot
Her vows put his eyes in formalin
At the back of her secret drawer
Their screams stuck in the wall
Their heads fell apart into sleep like the two halves
Of a lopped melon, but love is hard to stop
In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs
In their dreams their brains took each other hostage
In the morning they wore each other's face
#TheIronGiant, first released in cinemas #OnThisDay in 1999 Art by #KilianEng (@kilianeng) #CoolArt #Art #BradBird #HogarthHughes #TedHughes
Writing Tip Day 137👇👇 People like to dismiss fantasy as a low class genre. Fantasy readers are often treated with less credibility than those who read realistic fiction. But I believe that fantasy shows a reality that we often forget. In this day and age, our generation has been so numbed to the horrors of the world that crafting a new one with the same horrors seems to have a far stronger affect than the news reporting another school shooting. When those who read fantasy or dystopian or science fiction are hit with the terrible realization that these made up things they just read are actually a possibility, a reality, we are filled with emotion. The kind that causes action. We need more of that. More of that kind of literature, more of that kind of emotion, and far more of that kind of action. . . . . #writingtipday137 #writingadvice #writingtools #writingtip #writinglessons #novelist #novelhelp #writingnovels #writingstories #yaauther #tedhughes #takeaction #writerlife #quotes #inspirationalquotes #writersofinstagram #writersofig #amwriting #amediting #authorlife #indieauthors #nanowrimo #ilovewriting #writerscorner #writersofinsta #writerscommunity #poetry #yalit #yabooks #poetofinstagram
Robin Song : Ted Hughes
I am the hunted king Of the frost and big icicles And the bogey cold With its wind boots. I am the uncrowned Of the rainworld Hunted by lightning and thunder And rivers. I am the lost child Of the wind Who goes through me looking for something else Who can't recognize me though I cry. I am the maker Of the world That rolls to crush And silence my knowledge
