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Laureate Quotes by Andrew Motion
- Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight…
- Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the…
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