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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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"The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'."

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"Be true to your love to be true to yourself."

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"Knowledge is air to the wise. Wisdom is poison to a fool."

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"To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death."

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"If you light a fire, you cannot conceal the smoke."

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"If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not."

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"Once you let the truth loose it is like setting a fire that you can't stop."

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"Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified."

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"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."
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"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
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"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."
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"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have."
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"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
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"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
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"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely."
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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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"Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings."
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"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."
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