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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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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

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"When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style."

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"Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time."

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"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"

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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

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"If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to observe time. Walk with me."

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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

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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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"I still read Donne, particularly his love poems."
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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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"Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely."
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"Poetry and prayer are very similar."
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"I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales."
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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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"Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries."
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