She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though … - Carol Ann Duffy

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He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

Carol Ann Duffy

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

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I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

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For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

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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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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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Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

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