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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."

Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet
Life, Light, Living, Treasure
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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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"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'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
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"Poetry and prayer are very similar."
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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 write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister."
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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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"My prose is turgid, it just hasn't got any energy."
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"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
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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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