If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.
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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 them, to deny that they have ever existed.Helen Dunmore
You have to search for the voice of each character the things that he or she could or could not have said, the distinctive rhythm of the voice.
Helen Dunmore
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Helen Dunmore
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
Helen Dunmore
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
Helen Dunmore
When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.
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