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Tony Harrison Quotes

1937–2025 England

Tony Harrison (30 April 1937 – 26 September 2025) was an English poet, translator and dramatist. He was born in Leeds and received his education in Classics from Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University.

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Articulation is the tongue-tied’s fighting.

The ones we choose to love become our anchor
when the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.

This pen's all I have of magic wand.

I have to confess that I felt rather proud
of the simple device of my suffocating cloud.
The Prospero of poisons, the Faustus of the front,
bringing mental magic to modern armament.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tony Harrison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.