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Carol Ann Duffy

"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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"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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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"I find beauty in every sacred moment."

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"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

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"Better to be dirty than dead."

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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

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"To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!"

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"In silence we are loving and kind, in a crowd we become blind."

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"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

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"If you want people to enter your world, you don't need to invite them; just keep your door open and keep your thoughts plain!"

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"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."
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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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"Poetry and prayer are very similar."
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"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely."
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"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
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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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"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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"It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal."
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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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