Quotes by Helen Dunmore

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

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To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

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Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

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The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of...

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The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing...

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Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

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My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very...

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Mourning Ruby is not a flat landscape: it is more like a box with pictures...

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It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do...

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If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around...

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I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

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I was always influenced by language.

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