"You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured……" — Carol Ann Duffy
"You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue."
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41 Quotes by Carol Ann Duffy
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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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You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news,…
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Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
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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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If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
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If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or…
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It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
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I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you…
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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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How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?
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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…
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Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely
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More Coloured Quotes
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
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Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush…
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm…
— Malcolm X
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To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The flowers, the gorgeous, mystic multi-coloured flowers are not the flowers of life, but people, yes people are the true…
— Lord Buckley
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I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so…
— Vera Brittain
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Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars…
— Steven Chu
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The gateway to freedom...was somewhere close to New Orleans where most Africans were sorted through and sold. I had driven…
— Chuck Berry
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Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black coloured people and those who resemble them…
— Maimonides
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any…
— Don Van Vliet
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Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured…
— Oswald Spengler
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