"Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief."
-Carol Ann Duffy
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"The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.“
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"If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it."
-Carol Ann Duffy
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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."
-Carol Ann Duffy
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"I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way."
-Carol Ann Duffy
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"I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing."
-Carol Ann Duffy
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"Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen."
-Carol Ann Duffy
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
-Terry Wogan
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."
-Irving Howe
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
-Laurette Taylor
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
-Theodore Gericault
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
-Lionel Stander
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"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?"
-Francis Cabot Lowell
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