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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
"We can't even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending."
Explore more quotes by Carol Ann Duffy
"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."
"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
"When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light."
"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."
"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."
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