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I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#am #asked #i #i am #pleased

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#community #culture #journeys #national #national community

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

#be grateful #civil #coming #event #felt

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#down #going #i #itself #known

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#creative #each #fictional #i #irritant

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#deal #feelings #find #images #intense

The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#form #just #language #less #more

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan. ↗

— David Sedaris

#relationships #romance #sex #family

I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#amazing #back #conversation #dna #doctor

In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#attending #between #conferences #dialogue #goal