Wendy Cope
Wendy Cope
Wendy Cope, OBEis a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 July 1945
men two years
Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
writing two upset
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
approaches bloody buses men others soon stop three wait year
Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
english-poet poets
I used to think all poets were Byronic.
family funny humour poems quite
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
I like you more than I would like to have a cigarette.
christmas men earth
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
happy-life thinking plot
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
goodbye song heart
On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across
heart years mind
My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. Whatever you’ve got lined up, My heart has made its mind up And if you can’t be signed up This year, next year will do. My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you.
I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
clothes buying allowance
I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
thinking long people
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?
thinking said journalist
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.