That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shellsโhe becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.
Ted HughesSo we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.
Ted Hughes...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.
Ted HughesHe was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.
Ted Hughes