Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
powerful interesting way
In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.
pain real alive
Jenni Fagan is the real thing, and The Panopticon is a real treat: maturely alive to the pains of maturing, and cleverly amused as well as appalled by what it finds in the world.
honor ordinary
Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
writing trying moments
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
long people hell
Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.
rap should-have choices
While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
dream writing way
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
people feelings want
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time.
heart emotional forget
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
wordsworth poet admire
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
flower rose long
Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.
ocean garden sea
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green glade ... Such was that happy garden-state, ...
sports time bird
Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
running carpe-diem sun
Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run