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Which Quotes by Helen Dunmore
- A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
- I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense…
- It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate…
- Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures painted on every face. And each face is also a…
- My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
- Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of…
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