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Carol Ann Duffy

"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."

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"Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."

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"There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits."

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"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."

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"The lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end."

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"If you don't want to live in self-deceit in a new year, miracle must not be your focus."

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"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

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"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."

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"It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are."

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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."

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"Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified."

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"There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation."

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"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
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"I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."
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