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• Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
• You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just…
• Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.
• I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.
• If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
• If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership,…
• It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
• I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
• Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
• How would you prepare to die on a perfect April evening?
• It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal
• Between 9am and 3pm is when I work most intensely

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