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/ page 840 of 1205 /I always wanted a child. Being a mother is the central thing in my life.
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I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
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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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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
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I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
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I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.
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Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely.
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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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I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.
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The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language... it's language as play.
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If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
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I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
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The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
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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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You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
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If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
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The devout have laid out gardens in the desert.
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The formation of glass from the melting is like starting a clock. It resets the time for us to determine billions of years later.
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