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“I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.”

Naveen Andrews · Poetry

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Naveen Andrews

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

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Carol Ann Duffy

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.

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Thomas Lynch

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

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